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Health Equity Assessment Toolkit

The Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT and HEAT Plus) is a software application that facilitates the exploration, analysis and reporting of health inequalities.

Inequalities can be assessed through disaggregated data and summary measures of health inequality, visualized in interactive graphs, maps and tables. Results can be exported and saved in different formats.

The toolkit is organized around two main components:

🡪 'Explore Inequality' enables the exploration of the situation of inequality in one setting of interest.

🡪 'Compare Inequality' enables benchmarking of the situation of inequality across settings.

19 April 2023

Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT and HEAT Plus)

HEAT, Built-in Database Edition

✔ Explore datasets from the WHO Health Inequality Data Repository

✔ Available online

Note that some datasets are from externally published sources and are therefore not WHO official estimates. Please refer to the Indicator Metadata in the About menu within the tool for more information about the data.

HEAT Plus, Upload Database Edition

✔ Upload and work with your own data

✔ Available offline on your desktop (see this Readme file for download instructions)

✔ Available for Windows

✔ Prepare your data using the HEAT Plus template and validation tool

HEAT, Built-in Database Edition 🡢

HEAT user manual

HEAT technical notes

HEAT Plus, Upload Database Edition 🡢

HEAT Plus user manual

HEAT Plus technical notes

Training

Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT and HEAT Plus) eLearning course

Endorsements

Endorsement quotes for the Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT and HEAT Plus)

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Endorsements for the Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT)

Articles

Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT and HEAT Plus): exploring inequalities in the COVID-19 pandemic era International Journal for Equity in Health (2022)

Summary Measures of Health Inequality: A Review of Existing Measures and Their Application International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2022)

Health Equity Assessment Toolkit Plus (HEAT Plus): software for exploring and comparing health inequalities using uploaded datasets Global Health Action (2018)

Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT): software for exploring and comparing health inequalities in countries BMC Medical Research Methodology (2016)

Source code

HEAT and HEAT Plus source code

Feedback

To report any software problems or suggestions, please send an email to [email protected] with as detailed description as possible. Kindly note that this is not a helpline address.