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Descriptor English: Health Inequality Indicators
Descriptor Spanish: Indicadores de Desigualdad en Salud
Descriptor indicadores de desigualdad en salud
Entry term(s) índice de concentración de desigualdad
índice de desigualdad de la pendiente
Scope note: Variedad de medidas para proporcionar una estimación cuantitativa de la desigualdad en salud en una población. En el nivel más básico, las medidas de desigualdad utilizan estratificadores de equidad y se pueden dividir en indicadores simples y complejos. Los indicadores o medidas simples hacen comparaciones de la salud entre dos subgrupos sociales, como los más ricos y los menos ricos. Los indicadores complejos hacen uso de los datos de todos los subgrupos sociales para evaluar la desigualdad en la salud. (http://www.searo.who.int/entity/healthpromotion/9789241548632.pdf?ua=1)
Descriptor Portuguese: Indicadores de Desigualdade em Saúde
Descriptor French: Indicateurs d'Inégalité de Santé
Entry term(s): Inequity Concentration Index
Slope Index of Inequality
Tree number(s): SP5.467.522.166
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)
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
History Note: 2019
DeCS ID: 57929
Unique ID: DDCS057929
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Health Inequality Indicators - Preferred
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
Inequity Concentration Index - Narrower
Concept UI FD00062201
Scope note A relative measure of gradient inequality, and expresses the extent to which the health indicator is concentrated among the disadvantaged or advantaged. (https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001727)
Preferred term Inequity Concentration Index
Slope Index of Inequality - Narrower
Concept UI M0692552f
Scope note The slope index of inequality represents the absolute difference in predicted values of a health indicator between those with the highest level of education or wealth and those with the lowest level of education or wealth, while taking into consideration the entire distribution of education or wealth using an appropriate regression model. (http://www.searo.who.int/entity/healthpromotion/9789241548632.pdf?ua=1)
Preferred term Slope Index of Inequality



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