Costa-Font, Joan 
ORCID: 0000-0001-7174-7919, Hernández-Quevedo, Cristina and McGuire, Alistair ORCID: 0000-0002-5367-9841
(2010)
Persistence despite action? Measuring the patterns of health inequality in England (1997-2007).
LSE Health working papers (20/2010).
LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
ISBN 9780853284611
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Abstract
The persistence of inequalities in health is a major policy concern in England, which was addressed by the new Labour government in 1997 through prioritising the curtailment of health inequalities as a policy goal. However, whether specific interventions have managed to attain their goals is a question for empirical welfare analysis to elucidate. This paper addresses two related questions: first, it empirically examines the dynamic patterns of inequalities in health in England from 1997 to 2007 by estimating concentration indexes of inequality over three measures of health, namely self-reported health, long standing illness and health limitations, calculated across different years of the Health Survey for England. Second, using regression-based decomposition analysis, we explore whether specifically prioritised areas (so-called “spearhead” local authority areas ranked in the bottom fifth on national health indicators) exhibit a different pattern of inequality in the years following a targeted intervention in 2005. Results suggest that patterns of health inequalities in England exhibit moderate variation from 1997 to 2007, although some improvement in self-assessed health inequalities is found. Importantly, patterns of inequality in prioritised (spearhead) areas are not found to be significantly different than health inequalities in non-spearhead areas.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www2.lse.ac.uk/LSEHealthAndSocialCare/LSEHe... |
| Additional Information: | © 2010 the authors |
| Divisions: | European Institute Social Policy LSE Health Health Policy |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| JEL classification: | C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C2 - Econometric Methods: Single Equation Models; Single Variables > C21 - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I1 - Health > I12 - Health Production: Nutrition, Mortality, Morbidity, Suicide, Substance Abuse and Addiction, Disability, and Economic Behavior |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Nov 2010 11:38 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 19:00 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/29971 |
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