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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451565703321

Titolo

Analyzing health equity using household survey data [[electronic resource] ] : a guide to techniques and their implementation / / Owen O'Donnell ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : World Bank, c2008

ISBN

0-8213-6934-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Collana

WBI learning resources series

Altri autori (Persone)

O'DonnellOwen (Owen A.)

Disciplina

614.4/2072

Soggetti

Health surveys - Methodology

Health services accessibility - Research - Statistical methods

Equality - Health aspects - Research - Statistical methods

World health - Research - Statistical methods

Household surveys

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Data for health equity analysis: requirements, sources, and sample design -- Health outcome #1: child survival -- Health outcome #2: anthropometrics -- Health outcome #3: adult health -- Measurement of living standards -- Concentration curves -- The concentration index -- Extensions to the concentration index: inequality aversion and the health achievement index -- Multivariate analysis of health survey data -- Nonlinear models for health and medical expenditure data -- Explaining differences between groups: Oaxaca decomposition -- Explaining socioeconomic-related health inequality: decomposition of the concentration index -- Who benefits from health sector subsidies? benefit incidence analysis -- Measuring and explaining inequity in health service delivery -- Who pays for health care? progressivity of health finance -- Redistributive effect of health finance -- Catastrophic payments for health care -- Health care payments and poverty.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a step-by-step practical guide to the measurement of a variety of aspects of health equity, with worked examples and code



for Stata and SPSS. It also provides practical advice on a variety of associated issues such as measuring health and living standards, and the application of regression analysis to health data. 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 financial