Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Health Econ. 2013 Jan;22(1):106-13. doi: 10.1002/hec.1821. Epub 2011 Dec 5.
This paper suggests new indices of health inequality which may be used when only ordinal information is available on individual health status. We borrow ideas from the literature on the measurement of occupational or residential segregation and show that indices of ordinal segregation which have been recently proposed may be also applied to the measurement of health inequality. We also prove that these indices satisfy four axioms introduced to measure inequality with ordered response health data so that the new indices presented in this paper are consistent with the inequality ordering proposed by Allison and Foster. We also suggest an extension of the family of indices proposed by Abul Naga and Yalcin.
本文提出了新的健康不平等指标，当个体健康状况的信息仅为有序时，可以使用这些指标。我们借鉴了职业或居住隔离测量方面的文献，表明最近提出的有序隔离指数也可用于衡量健康不平等。我们还证明，这些指数满足了用于衡量有序反应健康数据不平等的四个公理，因此本文提出的新指数与 Allison 和 Foster 提出的不平等排序一致。我们还提出了 Abul Naga 和 Yalcin 提出的指数族的扩展。
