Decomposing socioeconomic inequality for binary health outcomes: an improved estimation that does not vary by choice of reference group
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- 4 March 2010
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Research Notes
- Vol. 3 (1), 57
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-3-57
Abstract
Decomposition of concentration indices yields useful information regarding the relative importance of various determinants of inequitable health outcomes. But the two estimation approaches to decomposition in current use are not suitable for binary outcomes.Keywords
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