Measuring total health inequality: adding individual variation to group-level differences

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Emmanuela Gakidou
Gary King
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[1] World Health Organization (20 Avenue Appia,Health Economist, Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy
[2] Evidence and Information for Policy,Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University and Senior Science Adviser
[3] World Health Organization (Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences,undefined
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Health inequality; risk of death; child mortality; extended beta-binomial model;
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10.1186/1475-9276-1-3
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