Two key policy goals in the health sector are equity and fi nancial
protection. New methods, data, and powerful computers have led to a
surge of interest in quantitative analysis that permits the monitoring
of progress toward these goals, as well as comparisons across
countries. ADePT is a new computer program that streamlines and
automates such work, ensuring that the results are genuinely comparable
and allowing them to be produced with a minimum of programming
skills.
This book provides a step-by-step guide to the use of ADePT for the
quantitative analysis of equity and fi nancial protection in the health
sector. It also elucidates the concepts and methods used by the
software and supplies moredetailed, technical explanations. The book is
geared to practitioners, researchers, students, and teachers who have
some knowledge of quantitative techniques and the manipulation of
household data using such programs as SPSS or Stata.
'During the past 20 years, an increasingly standardized set of
tools have been developed to analyze equity in health outcomes and
health fi nancing. Hitherto, the application of these analytical
methods has remained the province of health economists and
statisticians. This book and the accompanying software democratize the
conduct of such analyses, offering an easily accessible guide to equity
analysis in health without requiring sophisticated data analysis
skills.'
— Sara Bennett, Associate Professor,
Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
'As the international health community becomes increasingly
focused on monitoring the impact of universal coverage initiatives,
ADePT Health will help make the standard techniques more accessible to
policy makers and analysts, increase the comparability of health equity
and fi nancial protection measures, and aid in generating the evidence
needed to support policy.'
— Kara Hanson, Reader in Health System
Economics, Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine, United Kingdom
'The ADePT software and manual make it possible for researchers
without extensive statistical training to perform a range of analyses
that will provide an important evidence base for introducing universal
coverage reforms and for monitoring if these reforms are achieving
their objectives. The ADePT initiative is an exciting and timely
development that will enable researchers in low- and middle-income (as
well as high-income) countries to undertake health and health system
equity analyses that would previously have been lengthy and extremely
resource intensive.'
— Di McIntyre, Professor, School of
Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, South
Africa
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