From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><b></b></span><span lang="en-us"><b><font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="4">WHO Health Equity Monitor - live now</font><font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="4">!</font></b></span><span lang="en-us"><b></b></span><span lang="en-us"><b><br>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><b></b></span><span lang="en-us"><b><font color="#000000" face="Arial">Health Equity Monitor of WHO Global Health Observatory has gone live.</font></b></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><br>
</span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Arial">Monitor currently includes about 30 reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health indicators in 91 coun</font><font color="#000000" face="Arial">tries - 90 of which are LMICs, disaggregated by child</font><font color="#000000" face="Arial">’</font><font color="#000000" face="Arial">s sex, place of residence (rural vs. urban), wealth quintile, and education level.</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><br>
</span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Arial">Apart from the database, it has two other core components: country profiles and interactive visualizations</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><br>
</span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Arial">- showing in</font><font color="#000000" face="Arial">equalities in select health outcomes and services (situation and trends)</font><font color="#000000" face="Arial">.</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Arial">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 moveme</font><font color="#000000" face="Arial">nt toward equitable universal health coverage. </font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Arial">The Health Equity Monitor currently includes reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health indicators, disaggregated by child</font><font color="#000000" face="Arial">’</font><font color="#000000" face="Arial">s sex, place of residence (rural vs. urban), wealth quintile, and education le</font><font color="#000000" face="Arial">vel.</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><br>
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</span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Arial">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. </font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Arial">Core components of the Health Equity Monitor include the database, country profiles and interactive visualizations: </font></span></p>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Symbol">·<font face="Courier New"> </font></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font color="#000000" face="Arial">The database presents data for about 30 reproductive, maternal and child health indicators,</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><br>
</span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Arial">collected from nearly 200 surveys in 1993-201</font><font color="#000000" face="Arial">1. For around half of the countries, data are available for at least two time points.</font></span></p>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Arial">Interactive visualizations show inequalities</font> <font color="#000000" face="Arial">in select health outcomes and services (situation and trends).</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><br>
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