Showing papers by "Adam Wagstaff published in 1997"

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between two widely used indices of health inequality and explain why these are superior to others indices used in the literature is explained and the role that demographic standardization plays in the analysis of socioeconomic inequalities in health.

TL;DR: Inequalities in health favoured the higher income groups and were statistically significant in all countries, and were particularly high in the United States and the United Kingdom.

TL;DR: This paper employs the method of Aronson et al. (1994) to decompose the redistributive effect of the Dutch health care financing system into three components: a progressivity component, a classical horizontal equity component and a reranking component.