Analyzing health equity using household survey data a guide to techniques and their implementation - O'Donnell, Owen (Owen A.); World Bank.; ebrary, Inc. (Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2008)
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Health surveys -- Methodology; Health services accessibility -- Research -- Statistical methods; Equality -- Health aspects -- Research -- Statistical methods; World health -- Research -- Statistical methods; Household surveys; Electronic books