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Este número especial de la Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública se centra en el tema de la medición de las desigualdades en el ámbito de la salud y representa la culminación de una iniciativa conjunta del Programa Especial para el Análisis de la Situación de Salud, de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud, y un grupo de trabajo compuesto de profesionales e instituciones de Brasil, Chile, Cuba, España, México y Estados Unidos de América.

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This special issue of the Pan American Journal of Public Health focuses on measuring health inequalities, and it is the culmination of a collaborative effort by the Special Program for Health Analysis of the Pan American Health Organization and a working group of professionals and institutions from Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Spain, and the United States of America.

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REFLEXIONES DEL DIRECTOR / FROM THE DIRECTOR

Herramientas para la búsqueda de la equidad y la justicia social para todos
Tools in the search for equity and social justice for all
George A. O. Alleyne

INTRODUCCIÓN / INTRODUCTION

Medición de las desigualdades de salud: introducción

Measuring health inequalities: introduction
Carlos Castillo-Salgado, editor invitado/Guest Editor

MARCO TEÓRICO / THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

Epidemiologia e desigualdade: notas sobre a teoria e a história [Epidemiology and inequality: notes on theory and history]
Jarbas Barbosa da Silva e Marilisa Berti Azevedo Barros

Equity and health: a perspective on nonrandom distribution of health in the population [Equidad y salud: una perspectiva sobre la distribución no aleatoria de la salud en la población]
Barbara Starfield

ASPECTOS METODOLÓGICOS / METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS

Overview of social inequalities in health in the Region of the Americas, using various methodological approaches [Visión general de las desigualdades de salud en la Región de las Américas, usando diversos enfoques metodológicos]
George A. O. Alleyne, Carlos Castillo-Salgado, Maria Cristina Schneider, Enrique Loyola, and Manuel Vidaurre

Métodos de medición de las desigualdades de salud [Methods for measuring inequalities in health]
Maria Cristina Schneider, Carlos Castillo-Salgado, Jorge Bacallao, Enrique Loyola, Oscar J. Mujica y Anne Roca

Los sistemas de información geográfica como herramienta para monitorear las desigualdades de salud [Geographic information systems as a tool for monitoring health inequalities]
Enrique Loyola, Carlos Castillo-Salgado, Patricia Nájera-Aguilar, Manuel Vidaurre, Oscar J. Mujica y Ramón Martínez-Piedra

Índices para medir las desigualdades de salud de carácter social basados en la noción de entropía [Indices based on the notion of entropy for measuring social inequalities in health]
Jorge Bacallao, Carlos Castillo-Salgado, Maria Cristina Schneider, Oscar J. Mujica, Enrique Loyola y Manuel Vidaurre

ESTUDIOS NACIONALES DE DESIGUALDAD / COUNTRY–LEVEL STUDIES ON INEQUALITY

Expectativa de vida ao nascer e mortalidade no Brasil em 1999: análise exploratória dos diferenciais regionais [Life expectancy at birth and mortality in Brazil, 1999: exploratory analysis of regional differences]
Elisabeth Carmen Duarte, Maria Cristina Schneider, Rômulo Paes-Sousa, Jarbas Barbosa da Silva e Carlos Castillo-Salgado

La agregación de datos en la medición de desigualdades e inequidades en la salud de las poblaciones [Data aggregation in measuring inequalities and inequities in the health of populations]
Xavier Metzger

Variación de los indicadores de mortalidad evitable entre comunas chilenas como aproximación a las desigualdades de salud [Using different indicators of preventable mortality as an approach to measuring health inequalities in Chilean municipalities]
Cesar Gattini, Colin Sanderson y Carlos Castillo-Salgado

INFORMACIÓN SUPLEMENTARIA / SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

Nota técnica: resumen de los indicadores más utilizados para la medición de desigualdades

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