To understand the contribution of individual socioeconomic characteristics to inequality in childhood malnutrition, the estimated CIs were decomposed.
That's a characteristic of growing inequality and flows quite simply from the observation that the economy's growth has to be going somewhere.
This is a general abstract formulation and specializations of it are of interest, either to derive clear cut theoretical properties of migration flows like comparative statics with respect to characteristics of locations, including inequality in the distribution of factors within locations, or for empirical application.
Following O'Donnell et al. [31] and Wagstaff et al. [32], the contribution of each individual characteristic is defined as the product of the sensitivity of health with respect to that characteristic and the degree of inequality in that factor.
Tables 3 and 4 present results from the decomposition analysis which shows how the various socioeconomic characteristics of respondents contribute to inequality in child malnutrition.
Thus, patterns of disease and treatment reflect the political and economic characteristics of society and social inequalities (44, 45, 63, 64).
Segregation, separation of groups of people with differing characteristics, often taken to connote a condition of inequality.
From this evidence, we find that the first most important characteristics of these interventions in reducing inequality is that they were all related to basic health care for pregnant women or children, including immunization and other preventive health services, treatment of common illnesses, nutrition education or direct nutrition supplements.
High levels of inequality have also been a pervasive characteristic of the Chilean economy.
The inequalities outcomes could include quantitative descriptive difference for individuals or groups with different sociodemographic characteristics, absolute or relative concentration index, the slope or relative index of inequality [ 19], or any other measures used by authors for measuring change in inequalities after interventions.
