Measuring health inequalities between genders and age groups with realization of potential life years (RePLY)

Tang, Kam Ki; Petrie, Dennis; Rao, D. S. Prasada

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“…They use a panel of 76 countries covering the period 1990-1998. In a first stage they estimate a SPF using per capita expenditures on health and education, the level of GDP per capita, the adult literacy rate, a time trend and 4 Tang et al (2007) propose an alternative methodology in measuring health inequalities. They calculate avoidable deaths as the difference in a country's mortality profile with the mortality profile of a reference country that has the lowest mortality rates.…”

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Public sector efficiency, foreign aid and small island developing states

Feeny

Rogers

2008

J of Intl Development

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This paper examines the efficiency of public sector expenditures and foreign aid at achieving social sector outcomes in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Efficiency is estimated using a Stochastic Production Function (SPF) approach and panel data since 1990. A second stage of the analysis examines the determinants of efficiency. Results indicate that the efficiency of aid and public sectors at improving life expectancy has deteriorated during the 1990s but efficiency at improving school enrolments has increased. Higher levels of governance are associated with higher efficiency. There is also evidence to suggest that efficiency is lower in SIDS, as well as in Sub-Saharan Africa. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Public sector efficiency, foreign aid and small island developing states

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2008

J of Intl Development

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“…El estudio de la mortalidad evitable ha sido utilizado para detectar desigualdades en materia de salud inclusive en aquellos países que poseen seguro universal de salud (7,(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22). En el contexto latinoamericano las muertes evitables siguen siendo temas de salud pública de máxima prioridad puesto que entre las primeras causas de muerte se encuentran enfermedades como la tuberculosis, las enfermedades infecciosas infantiles, los trastornos maternos y perinatales y las carencias de micronutrientes, entre otras (16,23).…”

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Costos económicos de la mortalidad evitable en Cartagena, Colombia, 2000-2005

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Alvis-Estrada

2009

Rev. salud pública

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“…Tang, Petrie & Rao (2007) ( 2)This means that RePLY can be used to measure longevity inequality within as well as between age-sex groups.…”

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“…To analyse longevity inequality, RePLY can be used to replace LY to measure longevity on an individual basis and, hence, its distribution across the population. Since RePLY has filtered out the natural mortality differences between ages and sexes, it can be used to measure potential age or gender inequality in longevity that may be caused by unequal or inefficient allocation of resources, or by other socioeconomic, behavioural, cultural or environmental factors that increase mortality (Tang, Petrie and Rao, 2007).…”

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Measuring Health Inequality with Realization of Conditional Potential Life Years (RCPLY)

2014

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Health inequalities that are avoidable and unfair are considered more relevant for policy intervention. Recent work has improved on using life years (LY) to measure longevity inequality by developing a health indicatorthe Realization of Potential Life Years (RePLY) to adjust for unavoidable mortality risks. This approach, however, estimates unavoidable mortality risks by using the globally lowest mortality risks for each age-sex group of any country, and thus, benchmarking countries at different levels of development against the same unavoidable mortality risks without considering their heterogeneity. The current paper proposes to attempt to control for a country's national resources in estimating their (conditional) avoidable mortality risks. This allows the construction of a new health indicator-Realization of Conditional Potential Life Years (RCPLY). This paper presents and contrasts the empirical results for LY, RePLY and RCPLY based on life tables for 136 countries from year 2009.

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Measuring health inequalities between genders and age groups with realization of potential life years (RePLY)

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References 22 publications

Public sector efficiency, foreign aid and small island developing states

Public sector efficiency, foreign aid and small island developing states

Costos económicos de la mortalidad evitable en Cartagena, Colombia, 2000-2005

Measuring Health Inequality with Realization of Conditional Potential Life Years (RCPLY)

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