Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures and Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. 1. Introduction 3
6. Part I. Framework
7. 2. Which Health Distributions Are Inequitable? 27
8. 3. What Measurement Choices Must Be Faced to Measure Health Inequity? 53
9. 4. How Can a Health Distribution Be Summarized into One Number? 95
10. Part II. Empirical Illustration
11. 5. Bridging Concepts And Analysis 137
12. 6. Did Health Equity Improve In The United States Between 1990 And 1995? 161
13. 7. Conclusion 195
14. Appendix
15. Appendix A: Five Popular Health Inequality Measures 205
16. Appendix B: Intermediate Inequality in the Who Health Inequality Index 211
17. Appendix C: The Dead Imputation 216
18. Appendix D: The Gini Coefficient 219
19. Appendix E: The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) Measure 227
20. Appendix F: Adjustment of Household Income for Family Size and Structure 234
21. Notes 237
22. References 257
23. Index 281