Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT and HEAT Plus) (WHO)

Equity is essential to the Sustainable Development Goal principle of ‘leaving no one behind’ and central to the WHO GPW13 objective of ‘serving the vulnerable’. Health inequality monitoring is an essential starting point for building more effective and more equitable policies, programmes, and practices.

The Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT and HEAT Plus) is a software application that facilitates the interpretation and reporting of health inequality data and thereby supports capacity building for the integration of this evidence in policy-making processes. The toolkit is available in two editions: HEAT (Built-in Database Edition), which comes with the WHO Health Inequality Data Repository pre-installed; and HEAT Plus (Upload Database Edition), which allows users to upload and work with their own datasets.

This course provides a practical guide on how to use both HEAT and HEAT Plus to assess inequalities. The target audience is monitoring and evaluation officers, data analysts and other technical officers with an interest in data analysis and reporting. The course may also be of interest to students and researchers.

Course duration: Approximately 1.5 hours

Certificates: A Certificate of Achievement will be available to participants who score at least 80% of the total points available in the final assessment. Participants who receive a Certificate of Achievement can also download an Open Badge for this course. Click here to learn how.