Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice CONTENIDO: Introduction -- Data for Health Equity Analysis: Requirements, Sources, and Sample Design -- Health Outcome #1: Child Survival -- Health Outcome #2: Anthropometrics -- Health Outcome #3: Adult Health -- Measurement of Living Standards -- Concentration Curves -- The Concentration Index -- Extensions to the Concentration Index: Inequality Aversion and the Health Achievement Index -- Multivariate Analysis of Health Survey Data -- Nonlinear Models for Health and Medical Expenditure Data -- Explaining Differences between Groups: Oaxaca Decomposition -- Explaining Socioeconomic-Related Health Inequality: Decomposition of the Concentration Index -- Who Benefits from Health Sector Subsidies? Benefit Incidence Analysis -- Measuring and Explaining Inequity in Health Service Delivery -- Who Pays for Health Care? Progressivity of Health Finance -- Redistributive Effect of Health Finance -- Catastrophic Payments for Health Care -- Health Care Payments and Poverty