[PDF] Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data eBook

Author : Adam Wagstaff
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 2007-11-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0821369342

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Have gaps in health outcomes between the poor and better off grown? Are they larger in one country than another? Are health sector subsidies more equally distributed in some countries than others? Are health care payments more progressive in one health care financing system than another? What are catastrophic payments and how can they be measured? How far do health care payments impoverish households? Answering questions such as these requires quantitative analysis. This in turn depends on a clear understanding of how to measure key variables in the analysis, such as health outcomes, health expenditures, need, and living standards. It also requires set quantitative methods for measuring inequality and inequity, progressivity, catastrophic expenditures, poverty impact, and so on. This book provides an overview of the key issues that arise in the measurement of health variables and living standards, outlines and explains essential tools and methods for distributional analysis, and, using worked examples, shows how these tools and methods can be applied in the health sector. The book seeks to provide the reader with both a solid grasp of the principles underpinning distributional analysis, while at the same time offering hands-on guidance on how to move from principles to practice.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 18,87 MB
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309452961

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In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.

Author : Marcel Bilger
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,76 MB
Release : 2011
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Health equity; Financial protection; Health inequality; Computer software; Household survey data; Quantitative analysis.

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Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0821387960

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Two key policy goals in the health sector are equity and financial protection. New methods, data and powerful computers have led to a surge of interest in quantitative analysis that permits monitoring progress toward these objectives, and comparisons across countries. ADePT is a new computer program that streamlines and automates such work, ensuring that results are genuinely comparable and allowing them to be produced with a minimum of programming skills. This book provides a step-by-step guide to the use of ADePT for quantitative analysis of equity and financial protection in the health sect

Author : Angus Deaton
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 30,31 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801852541

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Using data from several countries, including Cote d'Ivoire, India, Pakistan, Taiwan, and Thailand, this book analyzes household survey data from developing countries and illustrates how such data can be used to cast light on a range of short-term and long-term policy issues.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 24,77 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789241561983

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Includes table of health system attainment and performance in all member states (191), ranked by eight measures.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 27,49 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9241548630

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"The Handbook on health inequality monitoring: with a special focus on low- and middle-income countries is a resource that enables countries to do just that. It presents a comprehensive yet clear overview of health inequality monitoring in a user-friendly manner. The handbook succeeds in giving those involved in health inequality monitoring an appreciation of the complexities of the process, as well as building the practical knowledge and skills for systematic monitoring of health inequalities in low- and middle-income countries. The use of the handbook will enable countries to better monitor and evaluate their progress and performance with a high degree of accountability and transparency, and allow them to use the results to formulate evidenced-based policies, programmes and practices to tackle inequalities in an effective manner."--Publisher's description.

Author : Richard Cookson
Publisher : Handbooks in Health Economic Evaluation
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Medical care
ISBN : 0198838190

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Health inequalities blight lives, generate enormous costs, and exist everywhere. This book is the definitive all-in-one guide for anyone who wishes to learn about, commission, and use distributional cost-effectiveness analysis to promote both equity and efficiency in health and healthcare.

Author : Ahmed Reza Hosseinpoor
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,41 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789241512183

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"This manual serves as a step-by-step practical reference to support countries in building capacity for integrating health inequality monitoring into their health information systems. It presents a range of World Health Organization tools and resources developed for measuring and reporting health inequality"--Publisher's description.