PHM-Exch> WHO Health Equity Monitor - live now!

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) <ruglucia at paho.org>
crossposted from: EQUIDAD at listserv.paho.org


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   ***WHO Health Equity Monitor - live now!****
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Website: ***http://bit.ly/YJSKnE* <http://bit.ly/YJSKnE>

   ***Health Equity Monitor of WHO Global Health Observatory has gone live.*
      Monitor currently includes about 30 reproductive, maternal, neonatal
      and child health indicators in 91 countries - 90 of which are LMICs,
      disaggregated by child’s sex, place of residence (rural vs. urban),
      wealth quintile, and education level.
      Apart from the database, it has two other core components: country
      profiles and interactive visualizations
      - showing inequalities in select health outcomes and services
      (situation and trends).

      Disaggregated data are useful to track progress on health goals,
      revealing differences between sub-groups that overall averages may mask.
      Health equity data provide an evidence base for equity-oriented
      interventions, and are a key component of the movement toward
      equitable universal health coverage.

      The Health Equity Monitor currently includes reproductive, maternal,
      neonatal and child health indicators, disaggregated by child’s sex,
      place of residence (rural vs. urban), wealth quintile, and education le
      vel.

      Data are based on Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and Multiple
      Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) conducted in 91 countries, 90
of which are
      low- or middle-income countries.

      Core components of the Health Equity Monitor include the database,
      country profiles and interactive visualizations:

·       The database presents data for about 30 reproductive, maternal and
child health indicators,
collected from nearly 200 surveys in 1993-2011. For around half of the
countries, data are available for at least two time points.

·       Country profiles highlight disaggregated data for each of the 91
study countries, using the most recent available data.

Interactive visualizations show inequalities in select health outcomes and
services (situation and trends).

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