Documents by GEGA

Presentations at GEGA Meetings

Presentations by GEGA and Gauges at other Meetings

Useful Reading

• Health Equity Research to Action: Short Course Reader 2004 [1.07MB]
• The Equity Gauge: Concepts, Principles, and Guidelines
  • English version [1.23mb pdf file]
• French version [852kb ]
• Spanish version [662kb ]
• Building Global and National Coalitions
  for Action in Health Equity
  Report of the International Conference on Equity in Health, 13-14 June 2004 Durban, South Africa [706kb ]
• Going from Bad to Worse: Malawi's Maternal Mortality
  summary [499kb ] full doc [245kb]
• Global Equity Gauge Alliance: Reflections and Early Experiences. Journal of Health Population and Nutrition (JHPN), September 2003. pdf file
• The Equity Gauge
• "Equity Gauge" - Monitoring Health Reform Progress in South Africa
• "Equity Gauge" - A Tool for Monitoring Equity in Health and Health Care in South Africa [pdf file]
• Developing City Wide Equity Gauges: Rationale and Pitfalls. by Pierre Ngom: African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Population Council, Nairobi.
• GEGA: A Global Equity Gauge Alliance [pdf file]

• The Equity Gauge: An approach to Monitoring Equity in Health and Health Care in Developing Countries - by Tim Evans [powerpoint presentation]
• Issues in Monitoring Equity in Resource Allocation. Kwa-Maritane Meeting, 17-20 August 2000 [powerpoint presentation]
• "Equity Gauge" - A Tool for Monitoring Equity in Health and Health Care in South Africa [powerpoint presentation]
• Developing City Wide Equity Gauges: Rationale and Pitfalls. by Pierre Ngom [powerpoint presentation]
• Making Household Surveys Equity-Relevant - Davidson R. Gwatkin [word doc]
• Integrating Gender issues in Monitoring Health Equity - Elsa Gomez, Pan American Health Organisation [word doc]
• Community Orientated - Bottom-up Approaches - A framework for action and assessment - Dan C.O. Kaseje [word doc]

• The Global Equity Gauge Alliance, An Introduction to the work, Presented at the WHO Meeting on Sub-National Health Systems Performance Assessement by Lexi Bambas & Hilary Brown, 24-26 April 2002 [powerpoint]

• Monitoring Equity in Health and Healthcare: A Conceptual Framework by Paula A. Braveman. Journal of Health Population and Nutrition (JHPN), September 2003.
• "Improving and Monitoring the Equity of Health Care Provision: A Discussion of the Selection of Indicators," by David McCoy and Lucy Gilson, available in A Travelling Seminar on the Attainability and Affordability of Equity in Health Care Provision - Workshop Proceedings pg 66-79
  
• Benchmarks of Fairness for Health Care Reform: A Policy Tool for Developing Countries. N. Daniels, J. Bryant, R.A.Castano, O.G. Dantes, K.S. Khan, S. Pannarunothai
• Principles and Basic Concepts of Equity and Health. Division of Health and Human Development, by Casas and Bambas, October, 1999 [pdf]
• MONITORING EQUITY IN HEALTH: A POLICY-ORIENTED APPROACH IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES. by Paula Braveman for the World Health Organization (WHO) [pdf]
• Reducing Health Inequalities in Developing Countries. Davidson R. Gwatkin
  (forthcoming in the Oxford Textbook of Public Health, fourth edition) [word doc]
• Social inequalities in health within countries: not only an issue for affluent nations. Paula Braveman, (Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of California, USA) and Eleuther Tarimo, Consultant, Ministry of Health and Child Welfare, Harare, Zimbabwe. Social Science & Medicine - Volume 54, Issue 11 Pages 1621-1635, June 2002. Available online at: Social Science & Medicine "............While interest in social disparities in health within affluent nations has been growing, discussion of equity in health with regard to low- and middle-income countries has generally focused on north-south and between-country differences, rather than on gaps between social groups within the countries where most of the world's population lives. This paper aims to articulate a rationale for focusing on within- as well as between-country health disparities in nations of all per capita income levels."
  
• A review of methods for monitoring and measuring social inequality, deprivation, and health inequality. Carr-Hill R, Chalmers-Dixon P. Centre for Health Economics, The University of York. This was written for the UK, but the parts on measuring deprivation could be helpful to anyone thinking about that. It is incomplete now, but the authors state they expect to complete it soon, and will make it available in hard copy as well.
  
• Measuring poverty and social exclusion. Joseph Rowntree Foundation. http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialpolicy/d32.asp and http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialpolicy/d22.asp. Includes methods and a selection of indicators, maps, and commentary on extent of social exclusion in Scotland.
• World Bank Toolkit for evaluating the poverty and distributional impact of economic policies. Part I, which deals with microeconomic techniques, may be particularly useful because it is not overly technical and supports awareness of the issues behind evaluation of policy impacts on poverty and inequalities. Part II deals with some macroeconomic effects and is more complicated.

• Braveman P. Monitoring Equity in Health: A Policy-Oriented Approach in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. WHO Dept.of Health Systems, 1998 (WHO/CHS/HSS/98.1), 92pp. available on WHO web-site at: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/1998/WHO_CHS_HSS_98.1.pdf. Practical methodologic recommendations for researchers in low- and middle-income countries for measuring social disparities in health and health care to inform policy; includes extensive tables assessing suitability of a range of indicators, on several criteria. Discusses indicator selection, data sources, analytic approaches, and placing measurement activities within an overall framework focused on informing policy to achieve greater equity in health and its determinants.