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Health Equity Assessment Toolkit
The Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT and HEAT Plus) is a software application that facilitates the exploration, analysis and reporting of health inequalities.
Inequalities can be assessed through disaggregated data and summary measures of health inequality, visualized in interactive graphs, maps and tables. Results can be exported and saved in different formats.
The toolkit is organized around two main components:
🡪 'Explore Inequality' enables the exploration of the situation of inequality in one setting of interest.
🡪 'Compare Inequality' enables benchmarking of the situation of inequality across settings.
Articles
- Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT and HEAT Plus): exploring inequalities in the COVID-19 pandemic era International Journal for Equity in Health (2022)
- Summary measures of health inequality: a review of existing measures and their application International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2022)
- Health Equity Assessment Toolkit Plus (HEAT Plus): software for exploring and comparing health inequalities using uploaded datasets Global Health Action (2018)
- Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT): software for exploring and comparing health inequalities in countries BMC Medical Research Methodology (2016)
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Feedback
To report any software problems or suggestions, please send an email to heat@who.int with as detailed description as possible. Kindly note that this is not a helpline address.