PHA-Exchange> Monitoring Health Equity in the MDGs: A PracticalGuide

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From: "Nancy Krieger" <nkrieger at hsph.harvard.edu>
and ruglucia at PAHO.ORG> 
> Millennium Development Goals 
> 
> Monitoring Health Equity in the MDGs: A Practical Guide
> 
> Meg Wirth, Enrique Delamonica, Emma Sacks, Deborah Balk, Adam
> Storeygard, Alberto Minujin
> 
> Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). a
> division of the 
> Earth Institute at Columbia University, and UNICEF.2006
> Available online as PDF file [70p.] at:
http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/povmap/downloads/data/analysis/Health_equ
> ity_Guidelines.pdf
> 
> "....The original purpose of this analysis was to show how to monitor
> the maternal and child health MDGs in an equity-sensitive manner. Using
> data from broad-scale, international household level surveys-the
> Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster
> Surveys (MICS)-that analysis (which examined six countries using 20
> health indicators and six social strata to ground recommendations in
> current data demonstrated that in order to understand and promote
> equity, it is necessary and feasible to establish a baseline using a
> variety of indicators and stratifiers, even in very low-income,
> data-poor countries.
> 
> This Practical Guide builds on the previous work and addresses a wider
> audience, providing specific technical advice on how to undertake a
> simple equity analysis using population-based surveys....."
>