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Research to action to address inequities: the experience of the Cape Town Equity Gauge

Vera Scott* email, Ruth Stern* email, David Sanders email, Gavin Reagon email and Verona Mathews email

School of Public Health, University of Western Cape, South Africa

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

International Journal for Equity in Health 2008, 7:6doi:10.1186/1475-9276-7-6

Published: 4 February 2008

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Additional file 1:

Graph 1. % Households in Subdistricts of Cape Town living in informal dwellings, 1996. This is a bar graph which shows the percentage of households in each health subdistrict of Cape Town which lives in informal dwellings in 1996.

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Graph 2. % Households in Subdistricts of Cape Town below poverty line. This is a bar graph which shows the percentage of households in each health subdistrict of Cape Town which lives below the poverty line in 1996.

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Graph 3. % Households in Subdistricts of Cape Town without piped water in dwelling or on site, 1996. This is a bar graph which shows the percentage of households in each health subdistrict of Cape Town which do not have piped water in their dwelling or on site in 1996.

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Graph 4. Infant Mortality Rate in Subdistricts of Cape Town, 2001. This is a bar graph which shows the number of infant deaths per 1000 live births in each health subdistrict of Cape Town in 2001.

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Graph 5. HIV prevalence in general population in Subdistricts of Cape Town, 2001. This is a bar graph which shows the HIV prevalence in the general population in each health subdistrict of Cape Town in 2001.

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Graph 6. Premature mortality in Subdistricts of Cape Town, measured in years of life lost (YLL), 2001. This is a bar graph which shows premature mortality in each health subdistrict of Cape Town as measured by years of life lost in 2001.

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Graph 7. Public Primary Health Expenditure in Subdistricts of Cape Town, expressed in South African Rand, in Excess/Deficit of Equity. This is a bar graph which shows the public primary care expenditure in each health subdistrict of Cape Town in excess (a bar above the horizontal axis) or deficit of what is equitable (a bar below the horizontal axis) in 2001.

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