Health inequality : morality and measurement /
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| Author / Creator: | Asada, Yukiko. |
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| Imprint: | Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2007. |
| Description: | xv, 294 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6689699 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Setting the Stage
- 1.2. Traditional and New Approaches
- 1.3. The Aim and the Plan
- 1.4. Terminology
- 1.5. Preliminary Discussion: Why are We Morally Interested in Health Distribution?
- Part 1. Framework
- 2. Which Health Distributions Are Inequitable?
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Equity as Equality in Health
- 2.3. Health Inequality as an Indicator of Social Justice
- 2.4. Three Egalitarian Reasons Revisited
- 3. What Measurement Choices Must Be Faced to Measure Health Inequity?
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Issues about Health
- 3.3. Unit of Time
- 3.4. Unit of Analysis
- 3.5. Different Perspectives on Health Equity Revisited
- 4. How Can a Health Distribution Be Summarized into One Number?
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Preliminaries
- 4.3. The Five Questions: An Overview
- 4.4. The Five Questions: A Close Look
- 4.5. Summary
- 4.6. Framework Revisited
- Part 2. Empirical Illustration
- 5. Bridging Concepts and Analysis
- 5.1. Overview
- 5.2. Building Blocks
- 5.3. How Healthy Were Americans on Average in 1990 and 1995?
- 6. Did Health Equity Improve in the United States between 1990 and 1995?
- 6.1. Empirical Analyses from Different Perspectives on Health Equity
- 6.2. Discussion
- 7. Conclusion
- 7.1. Summary
- 7.2. Future Work
- Appendix A. Five Popular Health Inequality Measures
- Appendix B. Intermediate Ineguality in the WHO Health Inequality Index
- Appendix C. The Dead Imputation
- Appendix D. The Gini Coefficient
- Appendix E. The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) Measure
- Appendix F. Adjustment of Household Income for Family Size and Structure
- Notes
- References
- Index
