Income and health inequality across Canadian provinces.
This paper uses the aggregate data from the Public Use Microdata Files (PUMF) of Canadian National Population Health Survey to estimate income related health inequalities across the ten Canadian provinces. The unique features of the PUMF allow for a meaningful cross-provincial comparison of health indices and their measured inequalities. It concludes that health inequalities favouring the higher income people do exist in all provinces when health status is either self assessed or measured by the health utility index. Moreover, it finds considerable variations in measured health inequalities across the provinces with consistent rankings for certain provinces.
Safaei
Jalil
J
Economics Program, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada V2N 4Z9. safaeij@unbc.ca
D002170:Canada / Q000453:epidemiology; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income / Q000145:classification* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D011159:Population Surveillance; D040442:Public Health Informatics; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D012962:Sociology, Medical / Q000191:economics*