Handbook on health inequality monitoring with a special focus on low- and middle-income countries (and e-learning)

This handbook explores health inequality monitoring, a specific type of health monitoring. Health inequality is the metric by which health inequity can be assessed. By extension, monitoring health inequality has the specific purpose of informing policies, programmes and practices to reduce differences in health that are unfair and unjust. Health inequality data provide a foundation for incorporating equity into evidence-based health planning, and also assessing whether current health initiatives promote equity. Throughout the handbook, the theoretical foundations and methodologies of health inequality monitoring are presented, focusing on applying the steps of the health monitoring cycle at the country level.