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Descriptor English: Health Inequality Indicators
Descriptor Spanish: Indicadores de Desigualdad en Salud
Descriptor indicadores de desigualdad en salud
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
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



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