Transcript of Global Equity Gauge Alliance Sub-national Health Systems Performance Assessment April 24-26, 2002...
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- Global Equity Gauge Alliance Sub-national Health Systems
Performance Assessment April 24-26, 2002 Lexi Bambas & Hilary
Brown
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- What do we mean by health equity? A world without systematic
differences in health status across socially, demographically, or
geographically defined populations or population subgroups
(Starfield, 2001).
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- What are the dimensions of inequity in health? Distributions
of: Health status: inequalities, harms, risks Health-affecting
resources: health system resources (access, quality, cost of
treatment) and PROGRESS-related factors Dimensions may also include
social consequences of illness
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- Social Strata across which Inequities Exist PROGRESS: Place of
Residence Religion Occupation/income Gender Race/ethnicity
Education SES (including income) Social Networks/capital
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- Key Principle in Redressing Inequities in Health Where
inequities exist, intervene to: correct the injustice, directly
reduce the harm, and/or minimize the consequences of the harm
Implications often include: Ensuring that marginalized pops have
access to basic material and non-material resources Compensating
for disadvantaged population subgroups Better distributing health
care resources according to need (rather than privilege)
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- The Equity Gauge Model Purpose: Monitor health outcomes and
processes with the goal of shaping more just policy 3 Pillars of an
Equity Gauge: Measurement Advocacy/action Community
participation
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- Vision of the Global Equity Gauge Alliance By the year 2015
every country should have an integrated system for monitoring
health system inequities that informs, monitors and evaluates
health and other socioeconomic policies Puyuhuapi Conference
position statement
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- What is an equity gauge? Action-oriented project aimed at
bridging research to policy: Monitoring the current dimensions of
health inequity as well as changes over time, especially in
response to policies and programs, using rigorous methodologies;
Advocating for health equity through evidence-based policy
recommendations and through raising public awareness; and Actively
supporting public and community participation in developing
projects, advocacy campaigns, and interventions.
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- Why is there an Equity Gauge initiative? Routine data on gaps
are generally not available or inadequate, and data is particularly
scarce in lower-income countries Special studies reveal wide &
often widening gaps in health & its determinants between
better- and worse-off groups
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- Inverse Care Laws Health care resources: the rich consume more
hospital and public health care than the poor, though they have
less need (Hart 1971) Public health and preventive care:
immunization coverage strongly correlated with socioeconomic status
(Gwatkin et al. 1999) Financial risk: poorer populations that
access services risk medical impoverishment (Liu and Hsiao, 1997;
WB, Voices of the Poor) The gradient of health along PROGRESS
variables correlates poor health to various forms of
disadvantage
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- Counties by Level of Marginality, Mexico 1990-96
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- Distribution of Health Resources, Mxico 1990-96 by level of
county marginality Very lowLowMediumHighVery high 0 5 10 15 20 0 40
60 80 100 %
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- Global Equity Gauge Alliance Secretariat held by Health Systems
Trust in S.A. Functions: Promotion of the 2015 goal Technical
assistance to support each of the three pillars Cross-fertilization
of lessons learned Resource mobilization Global networking to
encourage monitoring and generally promote health equity
endeavors
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- The Gauges exist in Asia: Bangladesh, China, Thailand Africa:
Kenya, South Africa (2), Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso
Latin America: Chile, Ecuador
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- A few examples Chile: focus on monitoring, capacity development
Bangladesh: focus on monitoring and advocacy Kenya: focus on
primary data collection, community participation
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- Chilean Equity Gauge Re-designing national household survey on
SES to enable an equity analysis of: health status, household
composition, housing quality and education Participating in first
LSMS with national and regional representation Piloting training
health equity module Identifying policy levers to improve
equity
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- Partnership Catholic University: Department of Public Health
and other social science faculties MINSAL (Ministry of Health)
Health Reform Committee MIDEPLAN (Ministry of Planning) Ministry of
Education FOSIS (National Fund for Social Development and
Interventions)
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- Infant Mortality Rates by County 2.62 7.69 14.59 28.34 42.25 0
5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 VitacuraProvidenciaIndependPurranque P.
Saavedra M Infantil Per 10,000 live births
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- Chilean Gauge Challenges Community Participation increasing
community involvement through empowerment is a complex process
requiring a long-term strategy Advocacy capacity development for
the Gauges multisectoral team in media strategies is needed
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- Bangladesh Equity Gauge Monitoring Incorporating questions
along PROGRESS lines into existing data collection systems &
conducting equity analyses Building national capacity to implement
equity enhancing research & policy Advocacy Use of newsletter
& mass media to inform policy makers and civil society of
results
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- Partnership ICDDR,B International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease
Research, Bangladesh BRAC BBS- Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics
BIDS- Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies
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- Gender gap in child mortality (by education), Matlab,
Bangladesh 1982 and 1996 Source: Bhuiya et al. 2001
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- Inequity in health status: Infant and under- five
mortality
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- Inequity in the utilization of health services Children brought
to a health facility for acute respiratory infection (1996-97)
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- -- Source: Bhuiya et al., 2001 --Poor members --Poor
Non-members --Rich
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- Bangladeshi Gauge Challenges Monitoring Introducing
equity-oriented questions into new data collection methods begins
with multisectoral support for redressing inequities Advocacy
Difficulty in engaging key constituents to endorse the utility of
equity analysis Mounting a successful advocacy campaign requires a
long-term strategy Resistance by policy makers to disseminating
politically sensitive results
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- Nairobi Equity Gauge Monitoring Secondary analysis to unveil
differences in morbidity and mortality among slum vs. non-slum
areas Community Participation Develop IEC materials on existing
health inequities & holding community meetings to raise
awareness Advocacy Newsletter and workshops to disseminate results
among key decision makers from NGOs, government and funders
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- Partnerships African Population and Health Research Center
National Council for Population and Development Urban Slums
Development Project, Nairobi City Council
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- % distribution of births in Kenya (by type of assistance
received during delivery)
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- % distribution of births in Kenya (by place of delivery)
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- Nairobi Gauge Challenges Community Participation & Advocacy
Moving forward is contingent upon results from monitoring
activities The year 2002 is an election year in Kenya New actors
New priorities
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- Range of Approaches Geographic level of analysis:
county/municipality based regional national data collection systems
Indicators measured: health status access, utilization, & cost
of health care resources and services other health-affecting
resources (PROGRESS variables) Monitoring/research strategies: use
of primary and secondary data development of new systems,
integration into existing systems
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- (cont.) Participants and stakeholders: government offices,
ministries, legislators, policymakers and planners NGOs private and
public research institutions academia indigenous groups Communities
and community leaders Advocacy strategies: various media outlets
dissemination of information to both government and civil society
stakeholders wide and pro-active partnerships