London School of Economics, LSE Health, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK.
Expert Rev Pharmacoecon Outcomes Res. 2010 Apr;10(2):177-86. doi: 10.1586/erp.10.14.
Reducing socioeconomic inequalities in health has become an important government objective. International organizations, such as the WHO, have played an important role providing the principles to encourage action in many countries. Evidence of socioeconomic inequalities in health is widespread. National and cross-national research has led to the development of a new set of methodological tools to address the challenges that the available data present. Several methods have been used in the literature to measure inequalities in health; the concentration index approach is becoming widely used. In the future, the research agenda will continue to shift away from documenting health inequalities toward efforts to support the development of policies to improve the health of the most deprived populations and to reduce inequalities in health.
减少健康方面的社会经济不平等已成为政府的一个重要目标。世界卫生组织等国际组织在为许多国家提供鼓励行动的原则方面发挥了重要作用。健康方面社会经济不平等的证据比比皆是。国家和跨国研究导致了一套新的方法学工具的发展，以应对现有数据带来的挑战。文献中使用了几种方法来衡量健康方面的不平等；集中指数方法正越来越被广泛使用。在未来，研究议程将继续从记录健康不平等状况转移到支持制定政策以改善最贫困人群的健康和减少健康不平等状况的努力。
