How well do health programmes reach the poor?

The principal elements of programme-incidence, coverage-inequality, and related techniques have been laid out elsewhere.1 The techniques usually rely on survey data about the household's socioeconomic status and whether household members have been reached by a particular service programme (eg,...

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Published inThe Lancet (British edition) Vol. 361; no. 9357; pp. 540 - 541
Main Author Gwatkin, Davidson R
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Ltd 15.02.2003
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Delivery of Health Care - economics
Health care
Health Services Research - methods
Households
Humans
Initiatives
Poverty
Social Class
Socioeconomics
Tanzania
Tanzania
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Summary:The principal elements of programme-incidence, coverage-inequality, and related techniques have been laid out elsewhere.1 The techniques usually rely on survey data about the household's socioeconomic status and whether household members have been reached by a particular service programme (eg, have attended a programme clinic session, have taken a drug or received an injection offered by the programme). The households are divided into groups (typically quintiles) by socioeconomic status, the frequency of programme service use is tabulated for each group, and the intergroup differences are assessed by any of several statistical disparity measures. By substituting health status for use of a health programme, the same approach can be used to measure disparities in health conditions or disease prevalence.
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ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(03)12558-5