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Methods for measuring horizontal equity in health resource allocation: a comparative study
ᅟ: There are many existing methodologies on measuring health equity, while seldom has method aiming at health resource allocation. We collected 6 method of measuring equity in health resource allocation. This paper presents key contents of methods on measuring horizontal equity in health service all...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4884040/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26054400 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13561-014-0010-x |
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author | Tao, Yi Henry, Kizito Zou, Qinpei Zhong, Xiaoni |
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description | ᅟ: There are many existing methodologies on measuring health equity, while seldom has method aiming at health resource allocation. We collected 6 method of measuring equity in health resource allocation. This paper presents key contents of methods on measuring horizontal equity in health service allocation, yet each method has its advantages and disadvantages as well as range of application, which may help researchers or government to make wise decision when choosing appropriate method for measuring equity. Through comparative analysis, we concluded that socioeconomic factors were considered in concentration index; although the Lorenz curve and Gini-coefficient are widely used, which exist uncertainty and incompleteness; overall inequality can be decomposed by Theil index, which is of significance for the planning of urban and rural areas; preferences on a certain class can be set artificially by Atkinson index; it is easy for Chi-square to analyze aided with statistical software; specific regional differences can be calculated by index of dissimilarity. CLASSIFICATION CODES: I1 ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13561-014-0010-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-48840402016-06-21 Methods for measuring horizontal equity in health resource allocation: a comparative study Tao, Yi Henry, Kizito Zou, Qinpei Zhong, Xiaoni Health Econ Rev Review ᅟ: There are many existing methodologies on measuring health equity, while seldom has method aiming at health resource allocation. We collected 6 method of measuring equity in health resource allocation. This paper presents key contents of methods on measuring horizontal equity in health service allocation, yet each method has its advantages and disadvantages as well as range of application, which may help researchers or government to make wise decision when choosing appropriate method for measuring equity. Through comparative analysis, we concluded that socioeconomic factors were considered in concentration index; although the Lorenz curve and Gini-coefficient are widely used, which exist uncertainty and incompleteness; overall inequality can be decomposed by Theil index, which is of significance for the planning of urban and rural areas; preferences on a certain class can be set artificially by Atkinson index; it is easy for Chi-square to analyze aided with statistical software; specific regional differences can be calculated by index of dissimilarity. CLASSIFICATION CODES: I1 ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13561-014-0010-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4884040/ /pubmed/26054400 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13561-014-0010-x Text en © Tao et al.; licensee Springer. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Tao, Yi Henry, Kizito Zou, Qinpei Zhong, Xiaoni Methods for measuring horizontal equity in health resource allocation: a comparative study |
title | Methods for measuring horizontal equity in health resource allocation: a comparative study |
title_full | Methods for measuring horizontal equity in health resource allocation: a comparative study |
title_fullStr | Methods for measuring horizontal equity in health resource allocation: a comparative study |
title_full_unstemmed | Methods for measuring horizontal equity in health resource allocation: a comparative study |
title_short | Methods for measuring horizontal equity in health resource allocation: a comparative study |
title_sort | methods for measuring horizontal equity in health resource allocation: a comparative study |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4884040/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26054400 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13561-014-0010-x |
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