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Adam Wagstaff
Researcher at World Bank
Publications - 314
Citations - 30650
Adam Wagstaff is an academic researcher from World Bank. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Population. The author has an hindex of 75, co-authored 313 publications receiving 28471 citations. Previous affiliations of Adam Wagstaff include University of Aberdeen & St James's University Hospital.
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Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data: A Guide to Techniques and Their Implementation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show how to implement a variety of analytic tools that allow health equity - along different dimensions and in different spheres - to be quantified, and provide a step-by-step practical guide to the measurement of various aspects of health equity.
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Socioeconomic inequalities in child mortality: comparisons across nine developing countries
Adam Wagstaff,Adam Wagstaff +1 more
TL;DR: This paper generates and analyses survey data on inequalities in mortality among infants and children aged under five years by consumption in Brazil, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Africa, and Viet Nam.
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Equity in the finance of health care: some further international comparisons
Adam Wagstaff,Eddy van Doorslaer,Hattem Van Der Burg,Samuel Calonge,Terkel Christiansen,Guido Citoni,Ulf-G Gerdtham,Michael Gerfin,Lorna Gross,Unto Häkinnen,Paul Johnson,Jürgen John,Jan Klavus,Claire Lachaud,Jørgen Lauritsen,Robert E. Leu,Brian Nolan,Encarna Peran,João Pereira,Carol Propper,Frank Puffer,Lise Rochaix,Marisol Rodríguez,Martin Schellhorn,Gun Sundberg,Olaf Winkelhake +25 more
TL;DR: This paper presents further international comparisons of progressivity of health care financing systems, modifying the methodology used there and achieving a higher degree of cross-country comparability in variable definitions, and updating and extending the cross-section of countries.
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Socio-economic differences in health nutrition and population within developing countries. An overview.
Davidson R. Gwatkin,Shea Rutstein,Kiersten Johnson,Eldaw Suliman,Adam Wagstaff,Agbessi Amouzou +5 more
TL;DR: The purpose of this opening chapter is to explain how data appearing in the overview tables and in the individual country reports came into being, and how they can be used to help shape policies and programs.
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Health-system reform and universal health coverage in Latin America
Rifat Atun,Luiz Odorico Monteiro de Andrade,Luiz Odorico Monteiro de Andrade,Gisele Almeida,Daniel Cotlear,Tania Dmytraczenko,Patricia Frenz,Patricia J. Garcia,Octavio Gómez-Dantés,Felicia Marie Knaul,Carles Muntaner,Juliana Braga de Paula,Felix Rigoli,Pastor Castell-Florit Serrate,Adam Wagstaff +14 more
TL;DR: In Latin America, health-system reforms have produced a distinct approach to universal health coverage, underpinned by the principles of equity, solidarity, and collective action to overcome social inequalities as discussed by the authors.