Assessing the Evolution of Territorial Disparities in Health

Assessing the Evolution of Territorial Disparities in Health

The paper investigates spatio-temporal trends in health disparities through an empirical example. We deal with geographical health pattern in Italy from 1991 to 2010, starting from infant mortality data available at the provincial level and assessing the existent disparity among macro-regions (the...

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Main Authors: Daniela Cocchi, Fedele Greco, Francesco Scalone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Nacional de Estatística | Statistics Portugal 2015-04-01
Series:Revstat Statistical Journal
Subjects:
health inequality
Gini index
generalised entropy
hierarchical Bayesian modelling
small area estimation
spatio-temporal smoothing
Online Access:https://revstat.ine.pt/index.php/REVSTAT/article/view/161

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