Monitoring Health Equity in the MDGs: A Practical Guide
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Cross-posted from ruglucia@PAHO.ORG
By: "Nancy Krieger" <nkrieger@hsph.harvard.edu>
Millennium Development Goals
Monitoring Health Equity in the MDGs: A Practical Guide
Meg Wirth, Enrique Delamonica, Emma Sacks, Deborah Balk, Adam Storeygard, Alberto Minujin
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). A division of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and UNICEF.2006. Available online as PDF file [70p.] at:
http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/povmap/downloads/data/analysis/Health_equity_Guidelines.pdf
"....The original purpose of this analysis was to show how to monitor the maternal and child health MDGs in an equity-sensitive manner. Using data from broad-scale, international household level surveys-the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)-that analysis (which examined six countries using 20 health indicators and six social strata to ground recommendations in current data demonstrated that in order to understand and promote equity, it is necessary and feasible to establish a baseline using a variety of indicators and stratifiers, even in very low-income, data-poor countries.
This Practical Guide builds on the previous work and addresses a wider audience, providing specific technical advice on how to undertake a simple equity analysis using population-based surveys....."
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Claudio Schuftan
mailto:claudio@hcmc.netnam.vn