O'Donnell, Owen A. creator Van Doorslaer, Eddy Wagstaff, Adam Lindelow, Magnus World Bank World Bank Institute eng xi, 220p. Contents: 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. Quality indicators, Health care Healthservices accessibility Data interpretation, Statistical Healthsurveys World health 9780821369333 0821369334 9780821369340 NLM 20241108112504.0