This study investigates the equity implications of introducing a facility-based maternity care strategy in rural Bangladesh. The study took place in Matlab subdistrict in Chandpur District, where the Centre for Population and Health Research (ICDDR,B) had initiated a home-based maternity care...

This study explores global inequality in health status, and decomposes it into within- andbetween-country inequality. We rely on standardized height indicators as our health indicator sincethey avoid the measurement pitfalls of more traditional measures of health such as morbidity,mortality and...

We propose simple modifications for the Kakwani tax progressivity measure that make it suitable for evaluating access inequality for medical services. Our modification is to measure inequality using the ratio of the concentration index to the Gini coefficient instead of the difference between...