Group- and individual-based approaches to health inequality
When assessing health inequalities, should one compare health outcomes across predetermined groups (e.g., race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status), or across individuals? Group-based approaches comparing group-specific means do not account for intra-group heterogeneity. Yet, traditional approaches bas...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:273995 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/273995 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1093/jrsssa/qnac001 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Inequality decomposition Life table Lifespan inequality Mortality differentials Social groups |
| Sumario: | When assessing health inequalities, should one compare health outcomes across predetermined groups (e.g., race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status), or across individuals? Group-based approaches comparing group-specific means do not account for intra-group heterogeneity. Yet, traditional approaches based on additive decompositions splitting total inequality in its within- and between-group components fail to elucidate the groups' relative performance. Here, we develop a third approach based on pairwise comparisons to evaluatenot only the variability that might exist across individuals within and between groups, but also the relative performance of the different groups vis-a-vis each other-thus integrating both perspectives into a coherent framework. |
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