Tracking and Decomposing Health and Disease Inequality in Thailand

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 800-807

  Yiengprugsawan, Vasoontara ^a   Lim, Lynette L Y ^a   Carmichael, Gordon A ^a   Seubsman, Sam Ang ^b   Sleigh, Adrian C ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SUKHOTHAI THAMMATHIRAT OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Concentration index; Decomposition; Health inequality; Specific diseases; Thailand

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GOITER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MIGRAINE; MORTALITY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS; THAILAND; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASTHMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; PEPTIC ULCER; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; THAILAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349729965     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2009.04.009     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Wagstaff A., van Doorslaer E., and Watanabe N. On decomposing the causes of health sector inequalities with an application to malnutrition inequalities in Vietnam. J Econom 112 (2003) 207-223
2. van Doorslaer E., and Koolman X. Explaining the differences in income-related health inequalities across European countries. Health Econ 13 (2004) 609-628
3. Lauridsen J., Christiansen T., Gundgaard J., Hakkinen U., and Sintonen H. Decomposition of health inequality by determinants and dimensions. Health Econ 16 (2007) 97-102
4. In: Seubsman S., Prapamontol T., Khamman S., Somboonsuk B., Kamolsukudom N., and Vilanerun D. (Eds). Look back study on the Thai health-risk transition (2007), Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University Press, Nonthaburi (in Thai, English abstract)
5. Nishiura H., Barua S., Lawpoolsri S., et al. Health inequalities in Thailand: geographic distribution of medical supplies in the provinces. Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 35 (2004) 735-740
6. Na Songkla M., Suksirisereekul S., Chunharas S., and Wibulpolprasert S. Equity in Health and Health Care in Thailand (1997), Health System Research Institute, Nonthaburi
7. In: Wibulpolprasert S. (Ed). Thailand Health Profile, 2001-2004 (2005), Express Transportation Organization Publishing, Bangkok
8. Wagstaff A. Socioeconomic inequalities in child mortality: comparisons across nine developing countries. Bull World Health Organ 78 (2000) 19-29
9. Zere E., and McIntyre D. Inequities in under-five child malnutrition in South Africa. Int J Equity Health 2 7 (2003) 10.1186/1475-9276-;2-7
10. Vapattanawong P., Hogan M.C., Hanvoravongchai P., et al. Reductions in child mortality levels and inequalities in Thailand: analysis of two censuses. Lancet 369 (2007) 850-855
11. Hosseinpoor A.R., Van Doorslaer E., Speybroeck N., et al. Decomposing socioeconomic inequality in infant mortality in Iran. Int J Epidemiol 35 (2006) 1211-1219
12. Deaton A. The Analysis of Household Surveys: A Microeconometric Approach to Development Policy (1997), Published for the World Bank by Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
13. StataCorp. Intercooled Stata 9.0 for Windows (2006), StataCorporation, College Station TX
14. Limwattananon S., Tangcharoensathien V., and Prakongsai P. Catastrophic and poverty impacts of health payments: results from national household surveys in Thailand. Bull World Health Organ 85 8 (2007) 600-606
15. van Doorslaer E., O'Donnell O., Rannan-Eliya R.P., et al. Effect of payments for health care on poverty estimates in 11 countries in Asia: An analysis of household survey data. Lancet 368 (2006) 1357-1364
16. Wagstaff A., Paci P., and van Doorslaer E. On the measurement of inequalities in health. Soc Sci Med 33 (1991) 545-557
17. Kakwani N., Wagstaff A., and van Doorslaer E. Socioeconomic inequalities in health: measurement, computation, and statistical inference. J Econom 77 (1997) 87-103
18. Sutton M., Carr-Hill R., Gravelle H., and Rice N. Do measures of self-reported morbidity bias the estimation of the determinants of health care utilisation?. Soc Sci Med 49 (1999) 867-878
19. Carr-Hill R., Rice N., and Roland M. Socioeconomic determinants of rates of consultation in general practice based on fourth national morbidity survey of general practices. BMJ 312 (1996) 1008-1012
20. Johansson R.S. The health transition: The cultural inflation of morbidity during the decline of mortality. Health Transit Rev 1 (1991) 39-65
21. Goh K.L. Changing trends in gastrointestinal disease in the Asia-Pacific region. J Dig Dis 8 (2007) 179-185
22. Sleigh A.C., Seubsman S.A., and Bain C. Cohort Profile: The Thai Cohort of 87 134 Open University students. Int J Epidemiol 37 2 (2008) 266-272
23. Heuveline P., Guillot M., and Gwatkin D.R. The uneven tides of the health transition. Soc Sci Med 55 (2002) 313-322
24. Yiengprugsawan V., Lim L.L., Carmichael G.A., Sidorenko A., and Sleigh A.C. Measuring and decomposing inequity in self-reported morbidity and self-assessed health in Thailand. Int J Equity Health 6 1 (2007) 23 10.1186/1475-9276-6-23
25. Camfield L., Universal coverage but unequal outcomes? An exploration of factors affecting the use of health services, and the impact of sustained ill health in Northeast and South Thailand. Paper presented for the UNU-WIDER Conference on Advancing Health Equity, September 29-30, 2006, Helsinki.
26. Hughes D., and Leethongdee S. Universal coverage in the land of smiles: Lessons from Thailand's 30 Baht health reforms. Health Aff (Millwood) 26 (2007) 999-1008
27. Suraratdecha C., Saithanu S., and Tangcharoensathien V. Is universal coverage a solution for disparities in health care? Findings from three low-income provinces of Thailand. Health Policy 73 (2005) 272-284
28. Tangcharoensathien V., Limwattananon S., and Prakongsai P. Improving health-related information systems to monitor equity in health: lessons from Thailand. In: McIntyre D., and Mooney G. (Eds). The Economics of Health Equity (2007), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge