Health Equity and Financial Protection: Streamlined Analysis with ADePT Software (World Bank Training Series)

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.