The Health Inequality Data Repository: 2024 update
30 June 2024
Health Inequality Monitor
Explore health inequality monitoring evidence, tools, resources and training
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.
Contact: inequality_monitoring@who.int
Latest releases
Statistical codes for calculating summary measures of health inequality
13 May 2024
eLearning courses: Inequality analysis using Excel, Stata and R
25 August 2023
Special Issue of Vaccines on 'Inequality in Immunization'
25 April 2023
eLearning course: Inequality monitoring in sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health
9 March 2023
'Health inequality monitoring foundations' eLearning series
14 September 2022
The largest global collection of disaggregated data about health and the determinants of health.
Health Equity Assessment Toolkit
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.
Tools and resources
A range of tools and resources to support health inequality monitoring activities.
1 February 2022
Inequality monitoring in sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health
Monitoring inequalities in sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (SRMNCAH) is an important part of efforts to promote equity....
1 November 2019
Inequality monitoring in immunization: a step-by-step manual
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...
Publications
Evidence on health inequalities at global and national levels across various health topics.
