TY - GEN AU - O'Donnell, Owen A. AU - Van Doorslaer, Eddy AU - Wagstaff, Adam AU - Lindelow, Magnus ED - World Bank. ED - World Bank Institute. TI - Analyzing health equity using household survey data : a guide to techniques and their implementation T2 - (WBI learning resources series) SN - 9780821369333 PY - 2008/// CY - Washington, D.C. : PB - The World Bank KW - Quality indicators, Health care KW - Healthservices accessibility KW - Data interpretation, Statistical KW - Healthsurveys KW - World health N1 - 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 ER -