Department of Economics, Lund University, P.O. Box 7082, SE-220 07 Lund, Sweden.
J Health Econ. 2013 May;32(3):659-70. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2012.10.012. Epub 2012 Nov 8.
This article discusses measurement of socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of a health condition, in response to the recent exchange between Guido Erreygers and Adam Wagstaff, in which they discuss the merits of their own corrections to the frequently used concentration index. We first reconcile their debate and discuss the value judgments implicit in their indices. Next, we provide a formal definition of the previously undefined value judgment in Wagstaff's correction. Finally, we show empirically that the choice of index matters, as illustrated by comparisons between countries using data from the European Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement.
本文讨论了健康状况流行率的社会经济不平等衡量问题，以回应 Guido Erreygers 和 Adam Wagstaff 最近的交流，他们在交流中讨论了对常用集中指数进行修正的各自优点。我们首先调和了他们的争论，并讨论了他们的指数中隐含的价值判断。接下来，我们对 Wagstaff 修正中以前未定义的价值判断提供了一个正式的定义。最后，我们使用来自欧洲健康、老龄化和退休调查的数据，通过国家之间的比较来说明指数的选择很重要。
