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Title: Wealth Inequality and Health Achievement: Relating novel measures of wealth distribution to child and maternal mortality
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2013
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Abstract: Background GDP per capita is arguably the single most predictive determinant of health at the national level, yet such a measure fails to capture the complexity of wealth (and thus health) distribution within a population. Health at the individual level has been shown to be associated with asset-based measures of wealth, but the relationship hasn’t been demonstrated consistently at the national level. Currently existing wealth and inequality measures are not comparable across surveys, across countries, or across time. In this thesis, I quantify wealth inequality using an asset-based measure by country and year, from 1990 to 2010, and study associations between inequality and several measures of health through the lens of the Millennium Development Goals. Methods I generate a global asset-based wealth index that is comparable across countries and over time using 461 surveys from 140 countries, anchoring this scale . . .
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Authors: Johns, Nicole, E
Institution: University of Washington
Department: Public Health
Advisor: Emmanuela Gakidou
Degree: MA
Publisher Location: Seattle, Washington
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Data Collections: IPUMS International
Topics: Fertility and Mortality, Health
Countries: Egypt