Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data by Owen O'donnell

Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data by Owen O'donnell

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.

Andrew Jones, PhD (York), Professor of Economics at the University of York, UK, where he was Head of the Department of Economics and Related Studies between January 2011 and september 2015. He was responsible for the running of the MSc in Health Economics at York between 1994 and 2011. During that time there were over 500 graduates from more than 70 different countries. He has also supervised 23 PhD students. He is a joint editor of Health Economics. He edited the Elgar Companion to Health Economics which was published in 2006 with 50 concise chapters that review the state-of-the-art in the field.

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ISBN 13	9780821369333
ISBN 10	0821369334
Titel	Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data
Autor	Owen O'donnell
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	World Bank Publications
Erscheinungsjahr	2007-11-30
Seitenanzahl	165
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