Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data

Health equity has become an increasingly popular research topic during the course of the past 25 years. Many factors explain this trend, including a growing demand from policymakers, better and more plentiful household data, and increased computer power. But progress in quantifying and understanding health equities would not have been possible without appropriate analytic techniques. These techniques are the subject of this book.  Read more...

Reaching the Poor with Health Services Policy Briefs
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• Overview.  A summary of the Program’s objectives, activities, reports, & principal finding.

• Conference.  Copies of all presentations made at the Program’s 2004 global conference.  Topics include child health, immunization, AIDS/TB/Malaria, nutrition, reproductive health, health systems, health financing, & lessons from other sectors.

• Reports.  The full texts of the Program’s principal reports, ranging from a four-page summary brochure for generalists & policy makers, to a 350-page volume for specialists.

• RPP Policy Briefs. Aims to share evaluated examples of health programs & projects that have successfully made heatlh sector spending more progressive.

• Individual Country Reports. The reports for each of the 56 countries covered provides estimated values for up to 120 hnp status, service use, and related indicators for each economically-defined quintile of the total population, of males and females, of rural and urban residents.  Approximately half the reports provide this information for two or more points in time.
• Overview Report. Each of the 120 sections in this report covers a specific hnp status, service use, or related indicator.   The data presented are the same as those appearing in the sections of the individual country reports that deal with the countries’ total population, but they are organized by indicator to facilitate cross-country comparisons and the identification of global patterns