Articles

Gender and Power ... and perhaps Temperament?

Authors: John DiLiberti

Social inequalities in health- do they diminish with age? Revisiting the question in Sweden 1999

Individuals with low income have poorer health and should, therefore, have higher health expenditure than people with high income particularly in countries with a universal health care system. However, it has ...

Authors: Juan Merlo, Ulf-G Gerdtham, John Lynch, Anders Beckman, Anders Norlund and Thor Lithman

Gender and power: Nurses and doctors in Canada

The nurse-doctor relationship is historically one of female nurse deference to male physician authority. We investigated the effects of physicians' sex on female nurses' behaviour.

Authors: Barbara Zelek and Susan P Phillips

Measuring total health inequality: adding individual variation to group-level differences

Studies have revealed large variations in average health status across social, economic, and other groups. No study exists on the distribution of the risk of ill-health across individuals, either within groups or...

Authors: Emmanuela Gakidou and Gary King

A Problem with the Individual Approach in the WHO Health Inequality Measurement

In the World Health Report 2000, the World Health Organization made the controversial choice to measure inequality across individuals rather than across groups, the standard in the field. This choice has been wid...

Authors: Yukiko Asada and Thomas Hedemann

Annotated Bibliography on Equity in Health, 1980-2001

The purposes of this bibliography are to present an overview of the published literature on equity in health and to summarize key articles relevant to the mission of the International Society for Equity in Hea...

Authors: James A Macinko and Barbara Starfield