1. Analysis of socioeconomic health inequalities using the concentration index
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Dirk Berkvens, John Lynch, Sam Harper, Peter Konings, Vincent Lorant, Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor, Niko Speybroeck, Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Konings, Peter, Harper, Sam, Lynch, John W, Hosseinpoor, AR, Berkvens, Dirk, Lorant, V, Geckova, Andrea, Speybroeck, Niko, and Science in Healthy Ageing & healthcaRE (SHARE)
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Concentration ,Health (social science) ,Distribution ,Health status ,Lorenz curve ,cumulative percentage ,Environmental health ,medicine ,Humans ,Theory ,Social determinants of health ,Sociology ,Socioeconomic status ,Health policy ,concentration index ,Public health ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,socioeconomic position ,Health Status Disparities ,Health equity ,Disadvantaged ,Health promotion ,Social Class ,Population Surveillance ,Health education ,Mathematical modeling ,Inequalities ,health inequality ,Algorithms ,Software - Abstract
Although ‘‘average’’ health conditions at national and global levels may have improved, inequalities in health conditions still exist among and within countries (Mackenbach et al. 2008; Smits and Monden 2009).Epidemiologists often focus on average health and try to understand its determinants. This is important, but measuring and understanding inequalities in health, i.e. the gap in health between disadvantaged and better-off groups, is an additional concern for health policy makers, health communicators and health scientists. Refereed/Peer-reviewed