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O Efeito Da Distribuição De Renda Sobre O Estado De Saúde Individual No Brasil

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  • Kenya Valeria Micaela de Souza Noronha
  • Mônica Viegas Andrade

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One of the main social economic problems observed in the majority of countries, in particularly, in the less developed countries, is the high level of income inequality and poverty. In Brazil, these facts are especially important because our country presents one of the worst income distributions in the world that results in a gini coefficient around 0,607. The aim of this paper is to study the relationship between health status and income distribution in Brazil. Specifically, we are interested in evaluate how income distribution impacts individual health status. The methodology used in this work is the logit multilevel model. Our database is PNAD 98 (National Household Survey) that presents a special survey about health status and other related subjects. Our main findings points that income distribution affects individual health status: the higher income distribution the worse individual health status.

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  • Kenya Valeria Micaela de Souza Noronha & Mônica Viegas Andrade, 2005. "O Efeito Da Distribuição De Renda Sobre O Estado De Saúde Individual No Brasil," Anais do XXXIII Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 33rd Brazilian Economics Meeting] 161, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics].
    • Handle: RePEc:anp:en2005:161
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    1. Márcia Regina Godoy & Giácomo Balbinotto Neto & Eduardo Pontual Ribeiro, 2006. "Estimando As Perdas De Rendimento Devido À Doença Renal Crônica No Brasil," Anais do XXXIV Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 34th Brazilian Economics Meeting] 38, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics].

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    • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

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