Monitoring subnational regional inequalities in health: Measurement approaches and challenges

International Journal for Equity in Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Hosseinpoor, Ahmad Reza ^a   Bergen, Nicole ^a   Barros, Aluisio J D ^b   Wong, Kerry L M ^b   Boerma, Ties ^a   Victora, Cesar G ^b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Area based unit of measure; Health inequality; Measures of inequality; Monitoring; Regional inequality; Summary measures

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; EQUITY; HEALTH MONITORING; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; INCOME; MATERNAL HEALTH; MEASUREMENT METHOD; REGIONAL PATTERN; SOCIAL INDICATOR; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; BANGLADESH; CHILD HEALTH CARE; EGYPT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GHANA; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH EQUITY; HUMAN; MATERNAL CARE; NEWBORN CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; ZIMBABWE; BENCHMARKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; INCOME; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICE; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

BANGLADESH; EGYPT; GHANA; ZIMBABWE;

BANGLADESH; BENCHMARKING; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EGYPT; EPIDEMIOLOGIC MEASUREMENTS; GHANA; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCOME; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 84957824940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14759276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12939-016-0307-y     Document Type: Article

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