Thursday, April 20, 2023 – 4:18 PM
Geneva, April 20 / WAM / The World Health Organization announced that it will launch the largest global collection of health inequality data, to serve as a comprehensive knowledge repository of disaggregated data and evidence related to population health and its determinants.
The repository, set to be launched today, allows health disparities to be tracked across population groups and over time by analyzing data according to group characteristics, from education level to ethnicity.
And the WHO said that in just one decade, the gap between rich and poor in health service coverage among women, newborns and children in low- and middle-income countries has almost halved. And the data reveal that eliminating wealth-related inequality in under-five mortality in These countries can help save the lives of 1.8 million children.
The health inequality data repository includes nearly 11 million points and consists of 59 groups from more than 15 sources. The data includes measures of more than 2,000 indicators divided into 22 dimensions of inequality, including demographic, social, economic and geographic factors.
The organization stated that the topics covered include the sustainable development goals, coronavirus, reproductive health, maternal and child health, immunization, and others.
The organization stated that although the available disaggregated data is limited, it reveals important patterns of inequality.
She explained that, for example: in high-income countries, high blood pressure is more common among men than among women, and rates of obesity are similar between men and women, while, on the contrary, in low-income countries, rates of high blood pressure are similar between women and men, but obesity rates are higher among women. among men.
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Zakaria Mohieldin
