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.

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Latest releases

Launch of WHO book 'Health inequality monitoring: harnessing data to advance health equity'

11 December 2024

Special Issue of Vaccines on 'Inequality in Immunization' 2024

24 September 2024

The Health Inequality Data Repository: 2024 update

30 June 2024

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' 2023

25 April 2023

 
Health Inequality Data Repository banner

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

Cambodia: Portrait of Ly Kanha, midwife and health centre malaria worker

Access a handbook, step-by-step manuals and statistical codes.

Read reports and articles with the latest evidence on health inequalities.

Ebola vaccines trials in Guinea

Learn more about health inequality monitoring in free, self-paced eLearning courses

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.

 

Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT and HEAT Plus)

Tools and resources

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

 

Statistical codes for health inequality analysis

13 May 2024
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Health Inequality Monitoring Workbook

Health Inequality Monitoring Workbook

11 December 2023
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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....

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.

Special issue on Inequality in Immunization 2023

Special Issue: Inequality in Immunization 2023

25 April 2023
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Special issue on COVID-19 and Inequality

Special Issue: COVID-19 and Inequality

14 February 2023
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State of inequality: HIV, tuberculosis and malaria

9 December 2021
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Explorations of Inequality_Childhood immunization

Explorations of inequality: Childhood immunization

20 June 2018
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