Health Equity and Financial Protection

ADePT Health is a free-standing computer program that allows users to produce quickly—and with a minimal risk of errors—most tables that have become standard in applied health equity analysis. It allows users to assess which income groups benefit most from government health spending, which use health services most, which spend the most on health care, and which enjoy the best health. ADePT produces summary statistics and charts that allow inequalities to be compared across countries and over time. This manual explains the methods ADePT uses, how to prepare the data for it, how to navigate the ADePT interface to generate the desired tables and charts, and how to interpret them.