Health equity is the absence of unfair, avoidable or remediable differences in health among population groups, defined by social, economic, demographic or geographic characteristics. Health inequalities are measurable differences in health across population subgroups. Monitoring health inequalities provides evidence on who is being left behind and informs health policies, programmes and practices that aim to close existing gaps and achieve health equity.

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The largest global collection of disaggregated data about health and the determinants of health.

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This software application enables the interactive exploration and comparison of health inequalities.

Use HEAT to explore the data within the Health Inequality Data Repository. 

Use HEAT Plus to upload and work with your own inequality data.

The toolkit helps you to easily explore patterns of inequality using disaggregated data and summary measures of inequality, to compare inequality between settings, and to create and export customized graphs, maps and tables.

 

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A range of tools and resources to support health inequality monitoring activities. 

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Monitoring inequalities in sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (SRMNCAH) is an important part of efforts to promote equity....

The manual is an introductory guide to inequality monitoring in the topic of immunization. Aiming to build capacity for the uptake and improvement of inequality...

Evidence on health inequalities at global and national levels across various health topics.

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