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<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>><br>crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">

EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a> I would call this summary "research as if people do not matter" or "when the computer is king"....look at one of the reasons being given for more research on equity : increasd computer power being available...  I hope the book is not like that.

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<div class="gmail_quote"><em>Claudio</em><br></div>

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<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font><b><font face="Arial" color="#993300" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #993300; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data Analyzing: A Guide to Techniques and Their Implementation

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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Owen O'Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer, Adam Wagstaff, and Magnus Lindelow

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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">WBI Learning Resources Series - Published by the World Bank - 2007

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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Available online PDF [234p.] at: <br><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPAH/Resources/Publications/459843-1195594469249/HealthEquityFINAL.pdf" target="_blank">

<font color="#333399"><span style="COLOR: #333399">http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPAH/Resources/Publications/459843-1195594469249/HealthEquityFINAL.pdf</span></font></a> </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">"….Health equity has become an increasingly popular research topic during the course of the past 25 years. Many factors explain this trend, including a

</span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">growing demand from policymakers, better and more plentiful household data, and increased computer power. But progress in quantifying and understanding health equities would not have been possible without appropriate analytic techniques.

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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">These techniques are the subject of this book. The book includes chapters dealing with data issues and the measurement of the key variables in health

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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">equity analysis (Part i), quantitative techniques for interpreting and presenting health equity data (Part ii), and the application of these techniques

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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">in the analysis of equity in health care utilization and health care spending (Part iii). The aim of the book is to provide researchers and analysts with a

</span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">step-by-step practical guide to the measurement of a variety of aspects of health equity, with worked examples and computer code, mostly for the computer

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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">*      *      *     * </span></font><font color="#333399"><span style="COLOR: #333399"> </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This message from the Pan American Health Organization, PAHO/WHO, is part of an effort to disseminate 

<br>information Related to: Equity; Health inequality; Socioeconomic inequality in health; Socioeconomic <br>health differentials; Gender; Violence; Poverty; Health Economics; Health Legislation; Ethnicity; Ethics; <br>Information Technology - Virtual libraries; Research & Science issues.  [DD/ IKM Area] 

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<br>and interpretations included in the Materials are those of the authors and not necessarily of The Pan American <br>Health Organization PAHO/WHO or its country members".</span></font><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="1">

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