A new Inequity-in-Health Index based on Millenium Development Goals: methodology and validation

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 142-150

  Eslava Schmalbach, J ^a   Alfonso, H ^b   Oliveros, H ^c   Gaitan H ^a   Agudelo, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Hospital Universitario Clinica San Rafael   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Countries; Health status; Health status indicators; Indicators; Inequalities; Outcome research

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; INCOME; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALARIA; METHODOLOGY; POVERTY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; UNDERWEIGHT;

CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GOALS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA; MORTALITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 37749009147     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2007.05.001     Document Type: Article

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