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

Summary: “Health equity is an area of major interest to health service researchers and policy makers, particularly those with a concern for low-and middle-income countries. This volume provides a practical hands-on guide to data and methods for the measurement and interpretation of health equity. It will act as a bridge between the academic literature that ‘tends to neglect practical details’ and the needs of practitioners for a clear guide on ‘how to do it.’ In my judgment this volume will become a standard text in the field of health equity analysis and will attract a wide international audience”—(back cover).

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.

Includes bibliographical references.