Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data: A Guide to Techniques and their Implementation

Have gaps in health outcomes between the poor and better off grown? Are they larger in one country than another? Are health sector subsidies more equally distributed in some countries than others? Are health care payments more progressive in one health care financing system than another? What are catastrophic payments and how can they be measured? How far do health care payments impoverish households?
Answering questions such as these requires quantitative analysis. This in turn depends on a…