Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data: A Guide to Techniques and their Implementation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780821369333)

Have gaps in health outcomes between the poor and better off grown? Are they larger in one country than another? Are health sector subsidies more equally distributed in some countries than others? Are health care payments more progressive in one health care financing system than another? What are catastrophic payments and how can they be measured? How far do health care payments impoverish households? Answering questions such as these requires quantitative analysis. This in turn depends on a clear understanding of how to measure key variables in the analysis, such as health outcomes, health expenditures, need, and living standards. It also requires set quantitative methods for measuring inequality and inequity, progressivity, catastrophic expenditures, poverty impact, and so on. This book provides an overview of the key issues that arise in the measurement of health variables and living standards, outlines and explains essential tools and methods for distributional analysis, and, using worked examples, shows how these tools and methods can be applied in the health sector. The book seeks to provide the reader with both a solid grasp of the principles underpinning distributional analysis, while at the same time offering hands-on guidance on how to move from principles to practice.

Author: Owen O'Donnell, Eddy Van Doorslaer, Adam Wagstaff
ISBN-10: 0821369334
ISBN-13: 9780821369333
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2007
Pages: 165
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 10.94h x 8.27w x 0.52d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 03/01/2008 pg. 79