This study compares the cost per case of treating wounds with conventional gauze dressings or with silastic foam elastomer dressings and concludes that the foam dressing is less costly both in terms of materials and of labour time.

This book shows how to implement a variety of analytic tools that allow health equity - along different dimensions and in different spheres - to be quantified. Questions that the techniques can help provide answers for include the following: Have gaps in health outcomes between the poor and the...

The authors propose a method for decomposing inequalities in the health sector into their causes, by coupling the concentration index with a regression framework. They also show how changes in inequality over time, and differences across countries, can be decomposed into the following: Changes...

A method for decomposing inequalities in the health sector into their causes is developed and applied to data on child malnutrition in Vietnam.Wagstaff, van Doorslaer, and Watanabe propose a method for decomposing inequalities in the health sector into their causes, by coupling the concentration...