Income-related inequalities in diseases and health conditions over the business cycle
How business cycles affect income-related distribution of diseases and health disorders is largely unknown. We examine how the prevalence of thirty diseases and health conditions is distributed across the income spectrum using survey data collected in Iceland in 2007, 2009 and 2012. Thus, we are abl...
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ftzbwkiel:oai:econstor.eu:10419/175634 2024-01-28T10:06:39+01:00 Income-related inequalities in diseases and health conditions over the business cycle Ásgeirsdóttir, Tinna Laufey Jóhannsdóttir, Hildur Margrét 2017 http://hdl.handle.net/10419/175634 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13561-017-0150-x eng eng Heidelberg: Springer gbv-ppn:884416534 Journal: Health Economics Review ISSN: 2191-1991 Volume: 7 Year: 2017 Issue: 12 Pages: 1-17 Heidelberg: Springer doi:10.1186/s13561-017-0150-x http://hdl.handle.net/10419/175634 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ddc:330 Equality Distribution Health Diseases Income Business cycles doc-type:article 2017 ftzbwkiel https://doi.org/10.1186/s13561-017-0150-x 2024-01-01T00:45:28Z How business cycles affect income-related distribution of diseases and health disorders is largely unknown. We examine how the prevalence of thirty diseases and health conditions is distributed across the income spectrum using survey data collected in Iceland in 2007, 2009 and 2012. Thus, we are able to take advantage of the unusually sharp changes in economic conditions in Iceland during the Great Recession initiated in 2008 and the partial recovery that had already taken place by 2012 to analyze how income-related health inequality changed across time periods that can be described as a boom, crisis and recovery. The concentration curve and the concentration index are calculated for each disease, both overall and by gender. In all cases, we find a considerable income-related health inequality favoring higher income individuals, with a slight increase over the study period. Between 2007 and 2009, our results indicate increased inequality for women but decreased inequality for men. Between 2009 and 2012 on the contrary, men's inequality increases but women's decreases. The overarching result is thus that the economic hardship of the crisis temporarily increased female income-related health inequality, but decreased that of men. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland EconStor (German National Library of Economics, ZBW) Health Economics Review 7 1 |
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How business cycles affect income-related distribution of diseases and health disorders is largely unknown. We examine how the prevalence of thirty diseases and health conditions is distributed across the income spectrum using survey data collected in Iceland in 2007, 2009 and 2012. Thus, we are able to take advantage of the unusually sharp changes in economic conditions in Iceland during the Great Recession initiated in 2008 and the partial recovery that had already taken place by 2012 to analyze how income-related health inequality changed across time periods that can be described as a boom, crisis and recovery. The concentration curve and the concentration index are calculated for each disease, both overall and by gender. In all cases, we find a considerable income-related health inequality favoring higher income individuals, with a slight increase over the study period. Between 2007 and 2009, our results indicate increased inequality for women but decreased inequality for men. Between 2009 and 2012 on the contrary, men's inequality increases but women's decreases. The overarching result is thus that the economic hardship of the crisis temporarily increased female income-related health inequality, but decreased that of men. |
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Ásgeirsdóttir, Tinna Laufey Jóhannsdóttir, Hildur Margrét |
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Ásgeirsdóttir, Tinna Laufey Jóhannsdóttir, Hildur Margrét |
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Income-related inequalities in diseases and health conditions over the business cycle |
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Income-related inequalities in diseases and health conditions over the business cycle |
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Income-related inequalities in diseases and health conditions over the business cycle |
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Income-related inequalities in diseases and health conditions over the business cycle |
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Income-related inequalities in diseases and health conditions over the business cycle |
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income-related inequalities in diseases and health conditions over the business cycle |
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