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998111
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b752481
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Analyzing health equity using household survey data : : a guide to techniques and their implementation /\ Owen O'Donnell [and others].
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| Publication Statement
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Washington, D.C. :: World Bank,, ©2008.
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| Series Statement
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WBI learning resources series
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1 online resource (xi, 220 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0821369342
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: 9780821369340
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0821369334
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9780821369333
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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This book provides a step-by-step practical guide to the measurement of a variety of aspects of health equity, with worked examples and code for Stata and SPSS. It also provides practical advice on a variety of associated issues such as measuring health and living standards, and the application of regression analysis to health data. 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 financi.
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Equality-- Health aspects-- Research-- Stastistical methods.
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Health services accessibility-- Research-- Statistical methods.
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Health surveys-- Methodology.
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Household surveys.
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World health-- Research-- Statistical methods.
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Global Health.
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Gesundheitswesen
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Gleichheit
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Hälso- och sjukvård-- forskning-- statistiska metoder.
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Hälsoundersökningar-- metodik.
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Health surveys-- Methodology.
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Household surveys.
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Internationaler Vergleich
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MEDICAL-- Epidemiology.
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MEDICAL-- Health Risk Assessment.
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Methode
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Umfrage
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Quality Indicators, Health Care.
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Data Interpretation, Statistical.
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Health Services Accessibility.
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Health Surveys.
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| Dewey Classification
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614.4/2072
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| LC Classification
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RA408.5.A53 2008
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W 84.1A532 2008
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QX 700rvk
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| Added Entry
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O'Donnell, Owen, (Owen A.)
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World Bank.
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