caa a22 4500 445389427 CHVBK 20180317143041.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10888-010-9148-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10888-010-9148-x Zheng Buhong Department of Economics, University of Colorado Denver, 80217, Denver, CO, USA aut A new approach to measure socioeconomic inequality in health [Elektronische Daten] [Buhong Zheng] This paper introduces a new approach to rank and measure socioeconomic inequality in health. A novel feature of the approach is the use of an income-health matrix that relates socioeconomic class with health status; each row of the matrix corresponds to a socioeconomic class and contains the respective probability distribution of health. By invoking a monotone assumption on the income-health matrix, which is a direct translation of the well-known hypothesis of social gradients in health outcomes, we derive a set of welfare-dominance and inequality-dominance conditions for ranking health distributions. Unlike other existing health inequality measures, our conditions require no cardinal specification of ordinal heath data and, hence, are robust. We then apply the dominance conditions to compare socioeconomic health inequality in the US and Canada using the newly released JCUSH data. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC., 2010 Health inequality nationallicence Lorenz dominance nationallicence Income-health matrix nationallicence Super-Lorenz dominance nationallicence Income mobility nationallicence The Journal of Economic Inequality Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 9/4(2011-12-01), 555-577 1569-1721 9:4<555 2011 9 10888 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-010-9148-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-010-9148-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Zheng Buhong Department of Economics, University of Colorado Denver, 80217, Denver, CO, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic Inequality Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 9/4(2011-12-01), 555-577 1569-1721 9:4<555 2011 9 10888 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer