WHO is committed to advancing health equity around the globe. Yet, in 2020, only half of countries included disaggregated data as part of their published national health statistics reports. Health inequality monitoring provides critical evidence to determine who is being left behind, and inform equity-oriented changes to policies, programmes and practices.
A new WHO eLearning course series, ‘Health Inequality Monitoring Foundations’ on the Health Inequality Monitoring channel of OpenWHO, addresses the need for capacity strengthening in health inequality monitoring.
This free five-course series is delivered in a self-directed learning environment, designed to meet the immediate learning needs of users. It is primarily targeted to monitoring and evaluation officers, researchers, analysts, and others with a general interest in health data and inequality monitoring.
Five course series:
- The Overview course gives a general introduction to the health inequality monitoring cycle and related key terminology and concepts.
- The Data sources course examines the strengths, limitations and opportunities to improve common data sources for health inequality monitoring, as well as the processes of data source mapping and data linking.
- The Health data disaggregation course explores how disaggregated health data are integral across the steps of monitoring, and guides learners in assessing and reporting disaggregated data.
- The Summary measures of health inequality course discusses the general characteristics of simple and complex summary measures, and guides learners through the selection, calculation, interpretation and reporting of a range of measures.
- The Reporting course demonstrates the components of high-quality health inequality reporting, emphasizing purpose-driven, audience-centred, and technically rigorous approaches.
Launch event:
An informational webinar to launch this new course series was held on September, 14 2022.
Welcome: Stephen Mac Feely, Director, Department of Data and Analytics, WHO
About the eLearning course series: Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor, Lead, Health Equity Monitoring, Department of Data and Analytics, WHO
Learner endorsements: Mary Mahy, UNAIDS; Thea Willis, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Taiwo Adedamola Oyelade, WHO Regional Office for Africa; Hala Abou Taleb, WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean; and Alarcos Cieza, WHO Headquarters
Open session for questions: Moderated by Devaki Nambiar, Health Equity Monitoring, Department of Data and Analytics, WHO