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Measuring socioeconomic health inequalities: fiction or reality?

Joan Costa (Economics of Social Policy Research Unit, Departament de Teoria Econòmica, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain and LSE Health and Social Care, London, UK)
Jaume Garcia (Department d’Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

International Journal of Social Economics

ISSN: 0306-8293

Article publication date: 1 August 2003

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Abstract

This paper empirically examines the inequalities related to social class and income using individual self‐reported health status data. Health inequalities are estimated by different indexes using individual standardised and unstandardised health status data. The population was divided into income and social class, respectively. From this two main results are obtatined: inequalities are sensitive to the health status variable and the social position variable employed. It was found that significant health related social class inequalities were insignificant when income was employed as a reference variable.

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Costa, J. and Garcia, J. (2003), "Measuring socioeconomic health inequalities: fiction or reality?", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 30 No. 8, pp. 883-892. https://doi.org/10.1108/03068290310483751

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