Measuring trend assessment of geographical inequality in health ...

Dispersion Index: measuring trend assessment of geographical ...

A Dispersion Index for the measurement of geographical inequality in the distribution of health status indicators across space and time is proposed.

Abstract. A Dispersion Index for the measurement of geographical inequality in the distribution of health status indicators across space and time is proposed.

Pergamon DISPERSION INDEX: MEASURING TREND ...

inequalities in the distribution of health status indi- cators across space and time. Our secondary objec- tive is to assess the trend in geographical ...

Measuring inequalities in the selected indicators of National Health ...

Gini coefficient (GC) was used to measure inequality. The population and the number of service providers in each province were the bases to ...

Measuring the inequalities in healthcare resource in facility and ...

ObjectiveThe study aimed to measure time trends of inequalities of the geographical distribution of health facilities and workforce in ...

Monitoring subnational regional inequalities in health: measurement ...

Monitoring inequalities based on subnational regions is a useful practice to unmask geographical differences in health, and deploy targeted, ...

NATIONAL HEALTH INEQUALITY MONITORING

The World Health Organization Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT) was developed to calculate summary measures of inequality using an existing database of ...

Measuring Geographic Inequalities: Dealing with Multiple Health ...

To measure the inequality between geographic areas, it is necessary to define what an appropriate geographic area is. A definition of geographic areas as units ...

Estimating the US Baseline Distribution of Health Inequalities Across ...

Gaps in health between racial and ethnic population subgroups in the 20% least socially vulnerable US counties and the 20% most socially ...

WHO releases the largest global collection of health inequality data

The Health Inequality Data Repository (HIDR) includes nearly 11 million data points and consists of 59 datasets from over 15 sources.

Disparities in Health and Health Care: 5 Key Questions and Answers

Disparities occur across multiple factors including race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age, geography, language, gender, disability ...

Inequality trends in the distribution of healthcare human resources in ...

Inequalities in the distribution of nurses and specialists have decreased from 2013 to 2018, while the Gini coefficients of the general ...

Measuring Disparities - SEER Cancer

the use of a pairwise comparison of trends is sufficient. • Even for assessing health-disparity trends between two groups using a pairwise comparison, we ...

Health Equity in Healthy People 2030

Measuring health disparities is essential to advancing health equity. That's why Healthy People 2030 monitors differences across population groups as it tracks ...

Trends of socioeconomic and geographic inequalities in severe ...

The trend in socioeconomic and geographic ... Health Equity Assessment Toolkit, employing both absolute and relative measures of inequality.

Investigating the impact of the English health inequalities strategy

Main outcome measure Geographical health inequalities measured as the relative and absolute differences in male and female life expectancy at ...

Beyond the map: evidencing the spatial dimension of health ...

Spatial inequalities in health result from different exposures to health risk factors according to the features of geographical contexts, ...

Monitoring changes in health inequalities through time - Canada.ca

Slope Index of Inequality (SII): to measure absolute inequality trends in life expectancy at birth and in healthy life expectancy between ...

Trends in health inequalities in 27 European countries - PNAS

Health inequalities are quantified both on a relative scale (using ratio measures such as the Relative Index of Inequality, RII) and on an ...

How is Health Inequality Measured and Monitored? - News-Medical

Typically, the simplest method of measuring health inequalities is by comparing the health of individuals from the lowest socio-economic group ...