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A variety of measures to provide a quantitative estimate of health inequality in a population. At the most basic level, measures of inequality make use of equity stratifiers and can be divided into simple and complex indicators. Simple indicators or measures make pairwise comparisons of health between two social subgroups, such as the most and least wealthy. Complex indicators make use of data from all social subgroups to assess health inequality. (http://www.searo.who.int/entity/healthpromotion/9789241548632.pdf?ua=1) |