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Measuring inequality: tools and an illustration
BACKGROUND: This paper examines an aspect of the problem of measuring inequality in health services. The measures that are commonly applied can be misleading because such measures obscure the difficulty in obtaining a complete ranking of distributions. The nature of the social welfare function under...
Autores principales: | Williams, Ruth FG, Doessel, DP |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2006
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1550241/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16716217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-9276-5-5 |
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