This study compares two measures of health equity, concentration indices and wealth quintiles, using a defined reference population, and considers benefits of both measures together to inform programmatic decision making.
This study compares two measures of equity, concentration indices and wealth quintiles, and considers the benefit of using both measures together to inform programmatic decision making, benchmarking these calculations against a national reference population.
To assess differences in horizontal equity over time, concentration curves from each survey year and for each country are generated using the Lorenz option in Stata 10.1.
Another commonly used measure to assess equity is the concentration index, which uses one summary value to capture the magnitude of socioeconomic inequality in a health outcome.
Finally, the private OOP expenditure will be analysed using an equity lens, by computing concentration curves and concentration index.
"A large part of our plan is to provide credit and growth-equity capital" in Brazil, says Glenn Dubin, the boss of Highbridge.Not very wild westAlthough Brazil's equity markets are liquid, concentration remains a problem for hedge funds.
Specifically, we provide robust evidence that a greater predilection for market financing over bank financing is associated with higher levels of power distance, concentration in equity markets, control of corruption, efficiency of debt enforcement; and the adoption of the euro.
While there are no absolute answers, savers who are decades from retiring should generally take on more risk, in the form of owning a heavy concentration of equities.
Using wealth quintiles and concentration indices together for equity monitoring improves usability of findings for decision making.
There has been little concentration of business in equities sales and trading, and most banks will be lossmaking in that area this year, the report said.
The most common measures used for equity monitoring are wealth quintiles and the concentration index.
