Promoting health equity: WHO health inequality monitoring at global and national levels.

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Health equity is a priority in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda and other major health initiatives. The World Health Organization (WHO) has a history of promoting actions to achieve equity in health, including efforts to encourage the practice of health inequality monitoring. Health inequality monitoring systems use disaggregated data to identify disadvantaged subgroups within populations and inform equity-oriented health policies, programs, and practices.This paper provides an overview of a number of recent and current WHO initiatives related to health inequality monitoring at the global and/or national level.We outline the scope, content, and intended uses/application of the following: Health Equity Monitor database and theme page; State of inequality: reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health report; Handbook on health inequality monitoring: with a focus on low- and middle-income countries; Health inequality monitoring eLearning module; Monitoring health inequality: an essential step for achieving health equity advocacy booklet and accompanying video series; and capacity building workshops conducted in WHO Member States and Regions.The paper concludes by considering how the work of the WHO can be expanded upon to promote the establishment of sustainable and robust inequality monitoring systems across a variety of health topics among Member States and at the global level.
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Authors Hosseinpoor, Ahmad Reza;Bergen, Nicole;Schlotheuber, Anne;
Journal global health action
Year 2015
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10.3402/gha.v8.29034
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monitoring world health organization sustainable development goals health inequality dimensions of inequality heath equity monitoring sustainable development goals health inequality dimensions of inequality heath equity

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