Strengthening and expanding health inequality monitoring for the advancement of health equity: a review of WHO resources and contributions.

ABSTRACT: As part of its commitment to advance health equity, the World Health Organization (WHO) has a developed area of work to promote and strengthen health inequality monitoring. This includes an emphasis on the collection, analysis and use of disaggregated health data, which are central to evidence-informed decision making. The aim of this paper is to review WHO's work on health inequality monitoring, namely the 2022-27 Inequality monitoring and analysis strategy and corresponding activities, resources and tools. The strategy has three goals pertaining to: strengthening capacity for health inequality monitoring; generating and disseminating the latest evidence on health inequality and supporting data disaggregation; and developing and refining health inequality monitoring methods, resources and

SUBMITTER: Hosseinpoor AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10022555 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature