1. Ranking populations in terms of inequality of health opportunity: A flexible latent type approach
- Author
-
Caterina Francesca Guidi, Paolo Brunori, Alain Trannoy, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, Polytechnic University of Bari, Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques (AMSE), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Siena, Italy, This paper benefits from the support of the Norface project IMCHILD., Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence (UniFI), and Università degli Studi di Siena = University of Siena (UNISI)
- Subjects
Inequality ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Population ,latent class ,Type (model theory) ,03 medical and health sciences ,0502 economics and business ,Econometrics ,Economics ,Humans ,050207 economics ,10. No inequality ,education ,Socioeconomic status ,opportunity-inequality curve ,media_common ,education.field_of_study ,Class (computer programming) ,030503 health policy & services ,Health Policy ,05 social sciences ,Rank (computer programming) ,1. No poverty ,self-assessed health ,Health Status Disparities ,[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance ,Health equity ,inequality of opportunity ,Europe ,Ranking ,Socioeconomic Factors ,8. Economic growth ,health inequality ,0305 other medical science - Abstract
International audience; We offer a flexible latent type approach to rank populations according to unequal health opportunities. Building upon the latent-class method, an approch increasingly adopted to estimate health inequalities, our contribution is to let the number of socioeconomic groups considered vary to obtain an opportunity-inequality curve for a population that gives how the between-type inequality varies with the number of types. A population A is said to have less inequality of opportunity than population B if its curve is statistically below that of population B. This version of the latent class approach allows for a robust ranking of 31 European countries regarding inequality of opportunity in health.
- Published
- 2021