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Health inequality monitoring: harnessing data to advance health equity
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Foreword
Endorsements
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Glossary
Introduction
Part 1: A primer
Chapter 1. What are health inequalities and why monitor them?
Chapter 2. Approaches to health inequality monitoring
Chapter 3. Health indicators and dimensions of inequality
Chapter 4. Health inequality monitoring: a shared responsibility
Chapter 5. Monitoring considerations across different contexts
Part 2: Generating impact
Chapter 6. Embedding inequality monitoring within health information systems
Chapter 7. Communicating about health inequalities
Chapter 8. Equity-oriented policy-making
Chapter 9. Social determinants of health: from monitoring to multisectoral action
Chapter 10. Health inequality monitoring on the path to a just society
Part 3: Data for health inequality monitoring
Chapter 11. Data requirements for health inequality monitoring
Chapter 12. Population-based data sources
Chapter 13. Institution-based data sources
Chapter 14. Surveillance systems, health facility assessments and other sources of data
Chapter 15. Selecting data sources and addressing data gaps
Chapter 16. Emerging and novel data sources
Part 4: Analysis and reporting
Chapter 17. Preparing disaggregated health data
Chapter 18. Interpreting disaggregated health data
Chapter 19. Assessing inequality using summary measures of health inequality
Chapter 20. Pairwise summary measures of health inequality
Chapter 21. Complex summary measures of health inequality
Chapter 22. Interpreting summary measures of health inequality
Chapter 23. Reporting disaggregated data and summary measures of health inequality
Chapter 24. Using health inequality analyses in evidence-informed decision-making
Chapter 25. Further quantitative inequality analysis approaches and measures
Epilogue
Annexes
Annex 1. Monitoring inequalities in social determinants of health
Annex 2. Monitoring inequalities in health expenditure
Annex 3. Increasing the voice of the people through community-led monitoring
Annex 4. Ethical considerations in public health surveillance
Annex 5. Climate change and health inequality
Annex 6. Urbanization and health inequality
Annex 7. Data source mapping in Indonesia
Annex 8. Complex sampling design characteristics of household surveys
Annex 9. Measures of economic status applicable to health inequality monitoring
Annex 10. Using data to advance health equity: general policy responses
Annex 11. Overview of summary measures of health inequality: definition, calculation and interpretation
Annex 12. Examples of difference and ratio calculations with favourable and adverse health indicators
Annex 13. Comprehensive example showing disaggregated data and pairwise and complex summary measures of health inequality
Annex 14. Typology of scenarios with variable inequality and overall average trends
Annex 15. Selection of graphs and maps for reporting inequality
Annex 16. Example of using Gini to measure dispersion in stunting among children in Kenya
Annex 17. Applying summary measures of health inequality to individual data
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