World Bank Institute
&
Human Development Network
cordially invite you to
The Launch of
Two Products from the Reaching the Poor II Project:
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| (Embedded image moved | |
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| | Household Survey Data |
| | A Guide to Techniques and their |
| | Implementation |
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| | By Adam Wagstaff |
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| | There is a growing demand from |
| | policymakers, for better and more |
| | plentiful household data and increased |
| | computer power. But progress in |
| | quantifying and understanding health |
| | equities would not have been possible |
| | without appropriate analytical |
| | techniques. This book provides |
| | researchers and analysts with a |
| | step-by-step practical guide to the |
| | measurement of a variety of aspects of |
| | health equity, with worked examples |
| | and computer code, mostly for the |
| | computer program Stata. The book |
| | includes chapters dealing with data |
| | issues and the measurement of the key |
| | variables in the health equity |
| | analysis (Part I), quantitative |
| | techniques for interpreting and |
| | presenting health equity data (Part |
| | II), and the application of these |
| | techniques in the analysis of equity |
| | in health care utilization and health |
| | care spending (Part III). |
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| | In a world dominated by health |
| | sector inequalities some pockets of |
| | success exist. The Reaching the |
| | Poor Policy Brief Series aims to |
| | share with a large policy and |
| | advocacy audience evaluated |
| | examples of health programs and |
| | projects that have successfully |
| | made health sector spending more |
| | progressive. The evidence of hope |
| | in attacking inequality comes from |
| | Latin America, Africa and Asia and |
| | covers instruments that range from |
| | targeted to universal programs, |
| | from pilots to national campaigns, |
| | and covering demand-side, supply |
| | side and mixed approaches. There |
| | is now growing evidence that |
| | inequality, while persistent, is |
| | not inevitable. The solutions, |
| | however, are varied as the causes |
| | of the problem. There is not one |
| | simple solution, but a set of |
| | policy options and operational |
| | instruments that can be adapted to |
| | country/regional conditions, needs, |
| | and constraints. The Policy Brief |
| | Series and a companion web-based |
| | discussion forum are designed to |
| | support a growing community of |
| | practice of policy makers, |
| | advocates, civil society, academia, |
| | and development partners that share |
| | an objective of addressing social |
| | injustice in the health sector. |
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Tuesday, November 13
2:00 - 4:00 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A light refreshments will follow the event
Note: This button will also add the event to your Lotus Notes calendar
OPENING REMARKS
Rakesh Nangia
Acting Vice President, World Bank Institute
Wijnand Marchal
First Secretary Economic, Dutch Embassy
PRESENTED BY:
Adam Wagstaff
co-author, Analyzing Health Equity; Lead Health Economist
Mr. Adam Wagstaff is a Lead Economist (Health) in the Development
Research Group (Human Development & Public Services Team). He has
been an associate editor of the Journal of Health Economics since
1989 and has published extensively on a variety of aspects of health
economics. Much of his work has involved conceptual and empirical
studies of equity, poverty and health. Outside health economics, he
has published on efficiency measurement in the public sector, the
measurement of trade union power, the redistributive effect and
sources of progressivity of the personal income tax, and the
redistributive effect of economic growth.
Abdo Yazbeck
co-author, Reaching the Poor with Health Services; Lead Health
Economist
Mr. Abdo S. Yazbeck is a lead health economist and the program
leader for the World Bank Institute's Health and AIDS team. He
served as a Coordinator of the Health and Poverty Thematic Group of
the Human Development Network working on improving the poverty focus
of the World Bank financed projects and on assisting country clients
in the development of Poverty Reduction Strategy papers and programs
(PRSP).
DISCUSSED BY:
Hugh Waters
Professor, Johns Hopkins
Dr. Hugh Waters is a Health Economist and Associate Professor in the
Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Waters? areas of expertise
are: (1) health insurance and health financing reforms; (2)
evaluation of the effects of health financing mechanisms on access,
equity, and quality; and (3) economic evaluation of health care
interventions.
Maria Luisa Escobar
Fellow, Brookings Institute
Ms. Escobar is a Global Health Fellow at the Brookings Institute and
a Senior Advisor to the Health Financing Task Force. She has
hands-on experience in the design and implementation of health
systems reform processes in developing countries, in which she has
participated in several capacities. On the government's side, she
has served the Colombian health system reform process as a Director
of Planning & Senior Advisor to the Minister on health financing
issues, priority setting and health policy.
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