A Global Analysis of Within-Country Health Inequalities.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Health inequalities are a defining social and policy concern. However, understanding whether a specific country's inequalities are large or small is limited without a comparative perspective with other countries.

Objective

To systematically compare health inequalities in 181 countries and territories from 1960 to 2021 by developing a Health Inequality Normalized Index (HINI) that does not rely on secondary variables such as income, education, or race and ethnicity.

Design, setting, and participants

This repeated cross-sectional study including demographic cross-national comparative analysis used age-at-death distributions from life tables for 181 countries and territories from 1960 to 2021. All county and territory health inequalities were ranked, and a ran

SUBMITTER: Bendavid E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12534847 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature