Adam Wagstaff

TL;DR: It is suggested that only two methods--the slope index of inequality and the concentration index--are likely to present an accurate picture of socioeconomic inequalities in health.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a step-by-step practical guide to the measurement of a variety of aspects of health equity, including gaps in health outcomes between the poor and the better-off in specific countries or in the developing world as a whole.

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between two widely used indices of health inequality and explain why these are superior to others indices used in the literature is explained and the role that demographic standardization plays in the analysis of socioeconomic inequalities in health.

TL;DR: This book shows how to implement a variety of analytic tools that allow health equity - along different dimensions and in different spheres - to be quantified to lead to more comprehensive monitoring of trends in health equity, a better understanding of the causes of these inequities, and more extensive evaluation of the impacts of development programs on health equity.

TL;DR: Two threshold approaches to measuring the fairness of health care payments are presented, one requiring that payments do not exceed a pre-specified proportion of pre-payment income, the other that they do not drive households into poverty, and the incidence and intensity of 'catastrophe' payments were reduced and became less concentrated among the poor.