Health Equity and Financial Protection: Streamlined Analysis with ADePT Software

Two key policy goals in the health sector are equity and financial protection. New methods data and powerful computers have led to a surge of interest in quantitative analysis that permits monitoring progress toward these objectives and comparisons across countries. ADePT is a new computer program that streamlines and automates such work ensuring that results are genuinely comparable and allowing them to be produced with a minimum of programming skills. This book provides a step-by-step guide to the use of ADePT for quantitative analysis of equity and financial protection in the health sector. It also gives the reader an accessible guide to the concepts and methods used by the software as well as more detailed technical explanations.