A modified Kakwani measure for health inequality

We propose simple modifications for the Kakwani tax progressivity measure that make it suitable for evaluating access inequality for medical services. Our modification is to measure inequality using the ratio of the concentration index to the Gini coefficient instead of the difference between them....

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Autores principales: Fukushige, Mototsugu, Ishikawa, Noriko, Maekawa, Satoko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer 2012
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3439277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22827922
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2191-1991-2-10

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3439277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22827922
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2191-1991-2-10

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