Rodríguez Martín José Antonio, Salinas Fernández José Antonio
Department of Applied Economics, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
Gac Sanit. 2012 Mar-Apr;26(2):190-2. doi: 10.1016/j.gaceta.2011.05.021. Epub 2011 Oct 24.
In this article, we propose a new index to measure maternal and child health in the least developed countries (LDCs) of Asia. This new index is applied to a group of countries particularly affected by poverty, which, in the terminology of the United Nations' Conference on Trade and Development, are the poorest of the poor. Our index has been designed by including the variables defined in the Goals of the Millennium Declaration. For this purpose, we used the P(2) distance method for 2008, the last year for which data were available. This index integrates variables of maternal and child health that allow territorial ordering of the LDCs in terms of these partial indicators. This analysis is particularly useful in a scenario such as the LDCs of Asia, which are beset by profound social and economic inequalities.
在本文中，我们提出了一项新指标，用于衡量亚洲最不发达国家（LDC）的母婴健康状况。这项新指标应用于一组受贫困影响特别严重的国家，用联合国贸易和发展会议的术语来说，这些国家是最贫穷中的最贫穷者。我们的指标是通过纳入《千年宣言》目标中定义的变量来设计的。为此，我们使用了2008年的P(2)距离法，这是可获取数据的最后一年。该指标整合了母婴健康变量，从而能够根据这些部分指标对最不发达国家进行地域排序。在亚洲最不发达国家这样一个深受严重社会和经济不平等困扰的情况下，这种分析尤为有用。
