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Decomposing world health inequality.

Journal of health economics - 1 Mar 2003

Pradhan Menno, Sahn David E, Younger Stephen D

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This study explores global inequality in health status and decomposes it into within- and between-country inequality. We rely on standardized height as our health indicator since it avoids the measurement pitfalls of more traditional measures of health such as morbidity, mortality, and life expectancy. It also avoids measurement problems associated with using monetary variables such as income or expenditure...

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PMID: 12606146
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6296(02)00123-6

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