[EQ] Monitoring Health Equity in the MDGs: A Practical Guide

      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_equity_
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..."

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      PART I: Background and Definitions

      1 Who Can Do This Analysis

      2 The Data Sources: Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and Multiple
Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)

      3 How to Define Health Equity and Inequity

      4 What to Measure? Indicator Selection

      5 Across which population groups? Social Stratifier Selection

      PART II: Single and Simultaneous Stratification Explained

      6 Constructing Singly-Stratified Tables

      7 Reading and Visualizing Results from Singly-Stratified Tables

      8 Constructing Simultaneously-Stratified Tables

      9 Reading and Visualizing Results from Simultaneously-Stratified
Tables

      10 Interpreting Tabular Results with Maps

      PART III: Implementation and Conclusions

      11 Monitoring Trends over Time

      12 What Have We Learned? Procedural Findings and Policy Implications

      13 Lessons for Implementation and Equity-Sensitive MDGs

      Appendices

      Appendix A: Definitions of Indicators, based on the MDGs
      Appendix B: Explanation of pivot tables
      Appendix C: Methods of calculating child mortality rates from survey
data
      References

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