Dear All
The following paper and response have been published in todays British
Medical Journal. Key points reproduced below
Best wishes
David McDaid
LSE Health and Social Care
World Health Report 2000: how it removes equity from the agenda for public
health monitoring and policy
Paula Braveman, Barbara Starfield, H Jack Geiger.
Commentary: comprehensive approaches are needed for full understanding
Christopher J L Murray
BMJ 2001;323 678-681
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/323/7314/678
Key points
* The World Health Report 2000 measure of health inequality is not
useful for guiding national policies
* It does not measure socioeconomic or other social inequalities in
health within countries
* It removes equity and human rights considerations from the routine
measurement and reporting of health
disparities within countries
* The report's measure correlates poorly with other well established
indices of social inequality in health
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