socioeconomic status. The plausibility of this principle is contestable. It does not seem desirable
to transfer health from a person with high living standards to a person with lower living standards
when the person with high living standards is in poor health and differences in living standards are
small. In general, the principle of health transfers will, both in its pure inequalities version and in
its socioeconomic inequalities version, be more acceptable the stronger the correlation between
health and other attributes such as income. The Gini condition and the CI condition, the stronger
versions of the principle of health transfers and the principle of income-related health transfers,
respectively, seem arbitrary and the equity weights implied by these conditions will not meet with
unanimous approval.