Jeanette Vega

TL;DR: Socioeconomic inequality in childhood malnutrition existed throughout the developing world, and was not related to the average malnutrition rate, so policies should take into account the distribution of childhood malnutrition across all socioeconomic groups.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that socioeconomic inequality in infant mortality in Iran is determined not only by health system functions but also by factors beyond the scope of health authorities and care delivery system, which implies that in addition to reducing inequalities in wealth and education, investments in water and sanitation infrastructure and programmes are necessary to realize improvements of inequality across society.

TL;DR: The goal of the commission is to strengthen health equity by catalysing policy and institutional change to address the social determinants of health.

TL;DR: A concentration index is used to summarize inequality in children's height-for-age z-scores in Ghana across the entire socioeconomic distribution and decomposes this inequality into different contributing factors.

TL;DR: Socioeconomic inequality in infant mortality favours the better-off in the country as a whole and in most of its provinces, but the degree of this inequality varies between the provinces.