Handbook on health inequality monitoring with a special focus on low- and middle-income countries
PowerPoint lectures based on the handbook
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Lecture 1: Introduction
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Presents background information about monitoring and health inequality, and an overview of health inequality monitoring in the context of low- and middle-income countries.
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Lecture 2: Health indicators and equity stratifiers
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Highlights considerations that underlie the selection of health indicators and equity stratifiers.
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Lecture 3: Data sources
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Outlines types of data sources and their strengths, limitations, and areas for improvement; introduces data source mapping.
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Lecture 4: Simple measures of health inequality
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Discusses the application and limitations of simple measures of inequality: difference and ratio.
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Lecture 5: Complex measures of health inequality
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Describes complex measures of inequality, and their application to health inequality monitoring: slope index of inequality, concentration index, absolute mean difference, Theil index, population attributable risk.
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Lecture 6: Reporting inequalities I
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Introduces the guiding principles to effectively report the results of inequality monitoring.
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Lecture 7: Reporting inequalities II
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Demonstrates additional considerations and practices for reporting health inequalities.
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Lecture 8: Cumulative example
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Provides an example of health inequality monitoring in the Philippines, applying concepts in lectures 1-7.