Open AccessThe Inequity of Expenditure Ratios on Health and Food among Different Deciles of Iranian Households
Author(s) -
Seyran Naghdi,
Saeed Reza Azami,
Afshin Naghdi,
Farshad Faghi Solouk,
Hesam Ghiasvand
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
iranian journal of health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2322-553X
DOI - 10.18869/acadpub.jhs.1.3.18
Subject(s) - decile , inequality , lorenz curve , consumption (sociology) , index (typography) , economics , health care , food consumption , descriptive statistics , gini coefficient , socioeconomics , environmental health , geography , medicine , agricultural economics , economic inequality , statistics , economic growth , mathematics , sociology , mathematical analysis , social science , world wide web , computer science
Background and purpose: Utilization of health care services and food influence the health status. The food and health care expenditure ratios determine the importance level of them in household's consumption expenditures. We aimed to investigate the Iranian rural and urban food and health expenditure ratios inequality during 1998 to 2012. Materials and Methods: This is a descriptive longitudinal study, which was conducted based on Iranian Statistics Centre and Central Bank annual surveys. Firstly we calculated the households food and health expenditure ratios. Then we calculated the Gini coefficients and Atkinson index by using STATA version 12. Results: The mean of rural households food and health expenditure ratios were 0.53 and 0.37 respectively. Also these were 0.53 and 0.22 for urban households. All above inequality levels are based on Gini coefficients.
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