An Empirical Study on the Inequality in Health and Healthcare in China’s Medical Reform

Table 1

Notations and definitions.

Notations	Definitions
CI	Concentration index. It measures the inequality.
	The CI of y (health or healthcare).
	The CI of influencing factor .
	The elasticity of y to .
CI()	’s contribution
	The intragroup inequality of urban residents
	The intragroup inequality of rural residents
	The intergroup inequality of urban and rural residents
	The intragroup inequality of the east region
	The intragroup inequality of the non-east region
	The intergroup inequality of the east region and the non-east region
	The change of y’s CI from period t − 1 to t
	The change of ’s CI from period t − 1 to t
	The change of y’s elasticity to from period t − 1 to t
	’s CI in period t
	y’s elasticity to in period t