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Record W2183839436

Measuring Health Inequality and Health Opportunity

2006· article· en· W2183839436 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Buhong Zheng

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicGlobal Health Care Issues
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHealth equityLorenz curveInequalityIncome distributionCategorical variableDominance (genetics)Socioeconomic statusWelfareMathematicsEconometricsEconomic inequalityEconomicsStatisticsSociologyHealth careEconomic growthDemographyGini coefficientPopulation
DOInot available

Abstract

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The paper considers the measurement of health opportunity with categorical data of health status. A society's health opportunity is represented by an income-health matrix that relates socioeconomic class with health status; each row of the matrix corresponds to a socioeconomic class and contains the respective probability distribution of health. In the first part of the paper, we formally demonstrate an important limitation in applying standard inequality criteria to distributions of health: without specifying the cardinal value for each health status, it is impossible to em- ploy Lorenz dominance in measuring health inequality. In the second part of the paper, we argue that it is a more sensible approach to measure in- equality of health opportunity. By introducing a monotone assumption on the income-health matrix, we derive a sequence of welfare-dominance con- ditions for health-opportunity comparisons. We then obtain dominance conditions for Lorenz curve-based inequality-rankings of health opportu- nities. Finally, we apply the results to compare health opportunities in the US and Canada using the newly released JCUSH data.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.445
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.407
GPT teacher head0.520
Teacher spread0.113 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations17
Published2006
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes

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