Ⅰ. Introduction 1 Ⅱ. Literature review 5 1. Measures and mechanism of health inequality 7 2. European Union’s health inequality indicators 11 3. UK’s health inequality indicators 15 4. US’s health inequality indicators 17 5. Health equity indicators as presented some previous studies in Korea 18 Ⅲ. Health Inequality Index (HII) for Korea and results 21 1. RIIs and SIIs for the elderly 25 2. Life expectancy by income 28 3. Life expectancy estimates by income and sex 35 4. Healthy life expectancy by income level in Korea 38 Ⅳ. Reducing health inequality in Korea 41 References 49
