Health Inequality Monitor
Explore health inequality monitoring evidence, tools, resources and training
“Identifying health inequalities and their drivers is essential for achieving health equity”
WHO Thirteenth General Programme of Work (GPW 13)
Only 50% of countries have included data disaggregation in their published national health statistics reports.
SCORE for health data technical package: global report on health data systems and capacity, 2020
Latest updates
- Launch of the Health Inequality Data Repository 20 April 2023 [Launch event]
- Launch of eLearning course: Inequality monitoring in sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health 9 March 2023 [Launch event]
- Special Issue of the International Journal for Equity in Health on 'COVID-19 and inequality' 14 February 2023 [Launch event]
- Launch of ‘Health inequality monitoring foundations’ eLearning series 12 September 2022 [Launch event]
The largest global collection of disaggregated data about health and the determinants of health.
Health Equity Assessment Toolkit
This software application enables 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...
26 September 2017
National health inequality monitoring: a step-by-step manual
The manual was designed as a highly accessible, practical reference to encourage and strengthen the practice of health inequality monitoring. Additionally,...
26 September 2015
Handbook on health inequality monitoring with a special focus on low- and middle-income countries
The World Health Organization developed the Handbook on health inequality monitoring: with a special focus on low- and middle-income countries to provide...
Publications
Evidence on health inequalities at global and national levels across various health topics.
