Abbreviating the Wealth Index to Measure Equity in Health Programs More Easily

Efforts to simplify the construction of the DHS wealth index are encouraged (while recognizing it is constructed differently in each country), but attempts to assess equity in health programs should bear in mind that it is not sufficient to calculate the wealth index just for the participants in the...

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Autor principal: Pullum, Thomas W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Global Health: Science and Practice 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4807743/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27016538
http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00028
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description Efforts to simplify the construction of the DHS wealth index are encouraged (while recognizing it is constructed differently in each country), but attempts to assess equity in health programs should bear in mind that it is not sufficient to calculate the wealth index just for the participants in the program. The quintile distributions can vary dramatically within sub-populations. Assessments of equity require knowledge of the distribution of potential participants as well as actual participants.
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spelling pubmed-48077432016-04-01 Abbreviating the Wealth Index to Measure Equity in Health Programs More Easily Pullum, Thomas W Glob Health Sci Pract Editorial Efforts to simplify the construction of the DHS wealth index are encouraged (while recognizing it is constructed differently in each country), but attempts to assess equity in health programs should bear in mind that it is not sufficient to calculate the wealth index just for the participants in the program. The quintile distributions can vary dramatically within sub-populations. Assessments of equity require knowledge of the distribution of potential participants as well as actual participants. Global Health: Science and Practice 2016-03-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4807743/ /pubmed/27016538 http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00028 Text en © Pullum. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. When linking to this article, please use the following permanent link: http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00028.
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