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1. Commentary: Identifying the Underpinnings of "Care That Honours Seniors" in Alberta.

Author

Parmar J, Classen K, Babiuk JA, and Sacrey LR

Subjects
Aged, Alberta, Family, Health Personnel, Health Status, Humans, Surveys and Questionnaires, Health Equity, Patient-Centered Care, Personhood, Social Conditions
Abstract

It is no surprise that seniors' care is an important focus across Canada. Seniors are the fastest growing age group in Canada, and it is not uncommon for this population to have high comorbidity rates, functional impairments and a significant risk of decline. It is essential to support the public in remaining healthy as they age and identify what is truly important to them., (Copyright © 2019 Longwoods Publishing.)

Published
2019
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2. 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