Workshop Objective:
The main objective of the Workshop was to discuss different ways and approaches for incorporating various dimensions of health into the measurement of poverty from a conceptual and a methodological point of view. The Workshop provided an opportunity to take stock on the progress being made in countries of the Americas in these topics. This was a contribution to the effort of the Expert Group on Poverty Statistics (Rio Group), to improve the quality and relevance of the measurement of poverty and the establishment of common procedures and best practices.
Specific Topics addressed:
- How to include in the measurements of poverty: household's and/or individual's health need, the consumption of health care services, or the benefits or costs of health care insurance services.
- How to define and estimate the minimum or adequate amount of health care expenditures needed to ensure a household minimum level of well being.
- How to adjust existing measurements of poverty to consider "nutritional losses" due to illness and diseases
- How important health related catastrophic expenditures are in explaining the dynamics of poverty
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Organization:
This was a joint activity organized by the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO / WHO) and the Housing and Household Economic and Statistics Division (HHES) of the United States Census Bureau (USCB) with the cooperation of the Statistical Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and the World Bank.
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