Analyzing health equity using household survey data : a guide to techniques and their implementation /

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 r...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: World Bank
Other Authors: O'Donnell, Owen (Owen A.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, ©2008.
Series:WBI learning resources series.
Subjects:
Health surveys > Methodology.
Health services accessibility > Research > Statistical methods.
Equality > Health aspects > Research > Stastistical methods.
World health > Research > Statistical methods.
Household surveys.
World health.
Health services accessibility.
Global Health
Quality Indicators, Health Care
Health Services Accessibility
Health Surveys
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Services de santé > Accessibilité > Recherche > Méthodes statistiques.
Santé mondiale > Recherche > Méthodes statistiques.
Santé mondiale.
Services de santé > Accessibilité.
MEDICAL > Health Risk Assessment.
MEDICAL > Epidemiology.
World health
Health services accessibility
Health surveys > Methodology
Household surveys
Gesundheitswesen
Gleichheit
Internationaler Vergleich
Methode
Umfrage
Hälso- och sjukvård > forskning > statistiska metoder.
Hälsoundersökningar > metodik.
Computer network resources.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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