Health and inequality

• Other Authors: Dias, Pedro Rosa, O'Donnell, Owen
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2013.
• Series: Research on economic inequality ; 21.
• Subjects: Medical economics.; Income distribution.; Equality > Health aspects.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781781905548
• ISSN: 1049-2585 ;
• DOI: 10.1108/S1049-2585(2013)21
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 507 p.)

Economists are increasingly turning their attention to the measurement and causes of health inequality. This is in response to widespread concern that health disparities reflect social injustices but is also part of the trend away from the narrow focus on inequality in income to the more encompassin...