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Handbook on health inequality monitoring with a special focus on low- and middle-income countries

Powerpoint lectures based on the handbook

Lecture 1: Introduction
ppt, 574kb
Presents background information about monitoring and health inequality, and an overview of health inequality monitoring in the context of low- and middle-income countries.

Lecture 2: Health indicators and equity stratifiers
ppt, 522kb
Highlights considerations that underlie the selection of health indicators and equity stratifiers.

Lecture 3: Data sources
ppt, 878kb
Outlines types of data sources and their strengths, limitations, and areas for improvement; introduces data source mapping.

Lecture 4: Simple measures on health inequality
ppt, 885kb
Discusses the application and limitations of simple measures of inequality: difference and ratio.

Lecture 5: Complex measures of health inequality
ppt, 1.82Mb
Describes complex measures of inequality, and their application to health inequality monitoring: slope index of inequality, concentration index, absolute mean difference, Theil index, population attributable risk.

Lecture 6: Reporting inequalities I
ppt, 1.19Mb
Introduces the guiding principles to effectively report the results of inequality monitoring.

Lecture 7: Reporting inequalities II
ppt, 1.42Mb
Demonstrates additional considerations and practices for reporting health inequalities.

Lecture 8: Cumulative example
ppt, 1.61Mb
Provides an example of health inequality monitoring in the Philippines, applying concepts in lectures 1-7.

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