Quantifying changes in global health inequality: the Gini and Slope Inequality Indices applied to the Global Burden of Disease data, 1990–2017

Background The major shifts in the global burden of disease over the past decades are well documented, but how these shifts have affected global inequalities in health remains an underexplored topic. We applied comprehensive inequality measures to data from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study.M...

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Main Authors: Jan M Stratil, Peter von Philipsborn, Fridolin Steinbeis, Dzintars Gotham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2019-10-01
Series:BMJ Global Health
Online Access:https://gh.bmj.com/content/4/5/e001500.full