Descriptor English: | Health Inequality Indicators | ||||
Descriptor Spanish: |
Indicadores de Desigualdad en Salud
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Descriptor Portuguese: | Indicadores de Desigualdade em Saúde | ||||
Descriptor French: | Indicateurs d'Inégalité de Santé | ||||
Tree number(s): |
SP5.467.522.166 |
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Scope note: | A variety of measures to provide a quantitative estimate of health inequality in a population. At the most basic level, measures of inequality make use of equity stratifiers and can be divided into simple and complex indicators. Simple indicators or measures make pairwise comparisons of health between two social subgroups, such as the most and least wealthy. Complex indicators make use of data from all social subgroups to assess health inequality. (http://www.searo.who.int/entity/healthpromotion/9789241548632.pdf?ua=1) |
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Allowable Qualifiers: | No qualifiers | ||||
History Note: | 2019 |
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DeCS ID: | 57929 | ||||
Unique ID: | DDCS057929 | ||||
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents |
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Health Inequality Indicators
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Concept UI |
FD00062200 |
Scope note | A variety of measures to provide a quantitative estimate of health inequality in a population. At the most basic level, measures of inequality make use of equity stratifiers and can be divided into simple and complex indicators. Simple indicators or measures make pairwise comparisons of health between two social subgroups, such as the most and least wealthy. Complex indicators make use of data from all social subgroups to assess health inequality. (http://www.searo.who.int/entity/healthpromotion/9789241548632.pdf?ua=1) |
Preferred term | Health Inequality Indicators |
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