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Analyzing health equity using household survey data : a guide to techniques and their implementation / Owen O'Donnell ... [and others].
Holman Biotech Commons RA408.5 .A53 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Series:
- WBI learning resources series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health surveys--Methodology.
- Health surveys.
- Health services accessibility--Research--Statistical methods.
- Health services accessibility.
- Equality--Health aspects--Research--Stastistical methods.
- Equality.
- World health--Research--Statistical methods.
- World health.
- Household surveys.
- Quality Indicators, Health Care.
- Data Interpretation, Statistical.
- Health Services Accessibility.
- Health Surveys.
- Global Health.
- Research.
- Statistics.
- Equality--Health aspects.
- Medical Subjects:
- Quality Indicators, Health Care.
- Data Interpretation, Statistical.
- Health Services Accessibility.
- Health Surveys.
- Global Health.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : World Bank, [2008]
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780821369333
- 0821369334
- 9780821369340
- 0821369342
- OCLC:
- 85498652
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