Handbook on health inequality monitoring : with a special focus on low- and middle-income countries

XVI, 105 S.

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Machine generated contents note: 1.Health inequality monitoring: an overview1.1.What is monitoring? -- 1.2.What is involved in health monitoring? -- 1.3.What is health inequality monitoring? -- 1.4.Why conduct health inequality monitoring? -- 1.5.How can health inequality monitoring lead to implementing change? -- 1.6.How are the social determinants of health related to health inequality monitoring? -- 2.Data sources -- 2.1.Data source types -- 2.2.Population-based data sources -- 2.3.Institution-based data sources -- 2.4.Strengths and limitations of key data sources -- 2.5.Data source mapping -- 3.Measurement of health inequality -- 3.1.How can health inequalities be measured? -- 3.2.Simple measures of inequality (pairwise comparisons) -- 3.3.Limitations of simple measures of inequality -- 3.4.Complex measures of inequality -- 3.5.Complex measures of inequality in ordered groups -- 3.6.Complex measures of inequality in non-ordered groups -- 3.7.Population attributable risk -- 4.Reporting health inequalities -- 4.1.Audience-conscious reporting -- 4.2.Methods of presenting data -- 4.3.Key aspects of health inequality reporting -- 4.4.Selecting measures of health inequality to report -- 4.5.Special considerations -- 4.6.Reporting time trends -- 4.7.Defining priority areas -- 5.Step-by-step health inequality assessment: reproductive, maternal and child health in the Philippines -- 5.1.Selecting relevant health indicators and equity stratifiers -- 5.2.Data source mapping -- 5.3.Data analysis -- 5.4.Reporting inequality -- 5.5.Defining priority areas.

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