A method for measuring spatial effects on socioeconomic inequalities using the concentration index

Abstract Background Although spatial effects contribute to inequalities in health care service utilisation and other health outcomes in low and middle income countries, there have been no attempts to incorporate the impact of neighbourhood effects into equity analyses based on concentration indices....

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Main Authors: Sung Wook Kim, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, Jolene Skordis-Worrall, Neha Batura, Stavros Petrou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-01-01
Series:International Journal for Equity in Health
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-019-1080-5