Handbook on health inequality monitoring : with a special focus on low- and middle-income countries / World Health Organization.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

World Health Organization, issuing body.

Series:

Nonserial Publications

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality--Health aspects--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Equality.

Health status indicators--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Health status indicators.

Health services accessibility--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Health services accessibility.

Medical economics--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Medical economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (123 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Health inequality monitoring

Place of Publication:

Geneva, Switzerland : World Health Organization, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Monitoring health inequality is a practice that fosters accountability and continuous improvement within health systems. The cycle of health inequality monitoring helps to identify and track health differences between subgroups providing evidence and feedback to strengthen equity-oriented policies programmes and practices. Through inequality monitoring and the use of disaggregated data countries gain insight into how health is distributed in the population looking beyond what is indicated by national averages. Data about health inequalities underlie health interventions that aim to reach vulne

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Executive summary; 1. Health inequality monitoring: an overview; 1.1 What is monitoring?; 1.2 What is involved in health monitoring?; Cycle of health monitoring; Health indicators; Figures; Figure 1.1 Cycle of health monitoring; Figure 1.2 Components of a national health sector monitoring, evaluation and review framework; Figure 1.3 Example health indicators related to reproductive, maternal and child health, displayed within a monitoring, evaluation and review framework; 1.3 What is health inequality monitoring?; Equity stratifiers

Measuring equity stratifiers1.4 Why conduct health inequality monitoring?; 1.5 How can health inequality monitoring lead to implementing change?; Considerations for agenda setting; Key stakeholders; 1.6 How are the social determinants of health related to health inequality monitoring?; 2. Data sources; 2.1 Data source types; Figure 2.1 Data sources for health inequality monitoring; 2.2 Population-based data sources; Censuses; Vital registration systems; Household surveys; 2.3 Institution-based data sources; 2.4 Strengths and limitations of key data sources; Tables

Table 2.1 Strengths, limitations and possible areas for improvement of key data sources for health inequality monitoring2.5 Data source mapping; 3. Measurement of health inequality; 3.1 How can health inequalities be measured?; 3.2 Simple measures of inequality (pairwise comparisons); Table 3.1 Area-based inequality in antenatal care (at least four visits) in Colombia, DHS 1995, 2000, 2005 and 2010; Table 3.2 Sex-based inequality in under-five mortality rates in Egypt, DHS 1995, 2000, 2005 and 2008

Table 3.3 Wealth-based inequality in births attended by skilled health personnel in the Philippines, DHS 1998, 2003 and 20083.3 Limitations of simple measures of inequality; Table 3.4 Wealth-based inequality in births attended by skilled health personnel in Ghana, DHS 2003 and 2008; Figure 3.1 Births attended by skilled health personnel in Ghana, by wealth quintile, DHS 2003 and 2008; Table 3.5 Education-based inequality in contraceptive prevalence (modern methods) in the Philippines, DHS 1993 and 2008

Figure 3.2 Contraceptive prevalence (modern methods) in the Philippines, by education level, DHS 1993 and 2008Figure 3.3 Proportion of women of reproductive age in the Philippines, by education level, DHS 1993 and 2008; 3.4 Complex measures of inequality; 3.5 Complex measures of inequality in ordered groups; Slope index of inequality; Figure 3.4 Slope index of inequality: absolute inequality in smoking prevalence in a population of men living in 27 middle-income countries, World Health Survey 2002-2004

Table 3.6 Arriving at midpoint values of cumulative range based on education subgroups, for a population of men living in 27 middle-income countries and associated smoking prevalence, World Health Survey 2002-2004

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

92-4-069155-3

OCLC:

868242038