@article{0dfb3e0be6194126bfc238fd56a484bd,
title = "Income-related inequalities in health: some international comparisons",
abstract = "This paper presents evidence on income-related inequalities in self- assessed health in nine industrialized countries. Health interview survey data were used to construct concentration curves of self-assessed health, measured as a latent variable. Inequalities in health favoured the higher income groups and were statistically significant in all countries. Inequalities were particularly high in the United States and the United Kingdom. Amongst other European countries, Sweden, Finland and the former East Germany had the lowest inequality. Across countries, a strong association was found between inequalities in health and inequalities in income.",
keywords = "Health inequality, International comparisons",
author = "{Van Doorslaer}, Eddy and Adam Wagstaff and Han Bleichrodt and Samuel Calonge and Gerdtham, {Ulf G.} and Michael Gerfin and Jos{\'e} Geurts and Lorna Gross and Unto H{\"a}kkinen and Leu, {Robert E.} and Owen O'Donnell and Carol Propper and Frank Puffer and Marisol Rodr{\'i}guez and Gun Sundberg and Olaf Winkelhake",
note = "Funding Information: This paper derives from the project *Equity in the Finance and Delivery of Health Care in Europe{"} (known as the ECuity Project), which is funded in part by the European Community's Biomed I programme (contract BMHI-CT92-608). We are grateful to the EC for financial support. We are also grateful to the other participants in the ECuity Project and to Nanak Kakwani and Peter Lambert for their conL,i butious to the research leading up to this paper and to Anton Kunst for helpful comments on an earlier version of the paper. We alone are responsible for any errors.",
year = "1997",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1016/S0167-6296(96)00532-2",
language = "English",
volume = "16",
pages = "93--112",
journal = "Journal of Health Economics",
issn = "0167-6296",
publisher = "Elsevier BV",
number = "1",
}
