Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data : A Guide to Techniques and Their Implementation

O'Donnell, Owen ; van Doorslaer, Eddy ; Wagstaff, Adam ; Lindelow, Magnus

Washington, DC:World Bank

关键词: LIVING CONDITIONS;    ADAPTATION;    AGED;    AGING;    CASE STUDIES;   

DOI  :  10.1596/978-0-8213-6933-3
RP-ID  :  42480

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This book shows how to implement avariety of analytic tools that allow health equity - alongdifferent dimensions and in different spheres - to bequantified. Questions that the techniques can help provideanswers for include the following: Have gaps in healthoutcomes between the poor and the better-off grown inspecific countries or in the developing world as a whole?Are they larger in one country than in another? Are healthsector subsidies more equally distributed in some countriesthan in others? Is health care utilization equitablydistributed in the sense that people in equal need receivesimilar amounts of health care irrespective of their income?Are health care payments more progressive in one health carefinancing system than in another? What are catastrophicpayments? How can they be measured? How far do health carepayments impoverish households? This volume has a simpleaim: to provide researchers and analysts with a step-by-steppractical guide to the measurement of a variety of aspectsof health equity. Each chapter includes worked examples andcomputer code. The authors hope that these guides, and theeasy-to-implement computer routines contained in them, willstimulate yet more analysis in the field of health equity,especially in developing countries. They hope this, in turn,will lead to more comprehensive monitoring of trends inhealth equity, a better understanding of the causes of theseinequities, more extensive evaluation of the impacts ofdevelopment programs on health equity, and more effectivepolicies and programs to reduce inequities in the health sector.