While it displays an encouraging trend, using such wealth-based indicators may skew our assessment of distributional equity: adding the other demographical, social, and economic factors through the VERSE Equity Toolkit (detailed in the Methods) brings the concentration indices back in positive values, highlighting the adverse effect of compounding disadvantages on coverage.
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Equity in vaccine coverage in Uganda from 2000 to 2016: revealing the multifaceted nature of inequity.
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