Document title: Measuring socio-economic inequalities in health: a practical guide
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This is the first in a series of technical briefings to be produced by the Scottish Public Health Observatory. In Scotland - as in many other countries - there is currently considerable emphasis being placed on reducing socio-economic inequalities in health. But success in achieving such a reduction can only be gauged if the inequalities can be measured. This briefing paper therefore looks at several different methods available to measure inequalities and provides a commentary on each. It also comes with an Excel worksheet that will enable public health practitioners and analysts to interpret their own data.
Author(s): Rosalia Munoz-Arroyo (ISD Scotland), Matt Sutton (University of Aberdeen)
Publisher(s): ScotPHO
Date published: 09 October 2007
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Supporting Excel workbook: Measuring inequalities - practical example (105Kb)

(Note: When opening this workbook, please select 'No' if prompted to update the workbook with changes made to other linked workbooks.)

Related additional resource: A free book recently published by the World Bank, Analyzing health equity using household survey data: A guide to techniques and their implementation, is another good resource on this topic.