Category Archives: English

Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT): Software for exploring and comparing health inequalities

This entry was posted in Equity, Health disparities and tagged Social Determinants of Health by Editor Equity/Equidad.

The World Health Organization Overview: Equity is at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In pledging to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), countries have committed themselves to leave no one behind. Health inequality monitoring is critical to understand who is being left behind as it can identify differences in health between […]

A Framework for Developing the Structure of Public Health Economic Models

This entry was posted in Health Systems, Public Health and tagged Conceptual Modeling, Methods by Editor Equity/Equidad.

Hazel Squires, James Chilcott, Ronald Akehurst, Jennifer Burr, Michael P.Kelly Value in Health, 2016 Published online: 23 April 2016 – article in press, Corrected Proof Abstract / Resumen: Background: A conceptual modeling framework is a methodology that assists modelers through the process of developing a model structure. Public health interventions tend to operate in dynamically complex […]

World Development Indicators 2016: Featuring the Sustainable Development Goals

This entry was posted in Health economics, Social determinants and tagged Determinantes de Salud, Global Health, Health Inequalities, Social Determinants of Health by Editor Equity/Equidad.

World Bank Group Published online: April 2016 Overview / Visión General These WDI Highlights are drawn from World Development Indicators (WDI) 2016 – the World Bank’s compilation of internationally comparable statistics about global development and the quality of people’s lives. WDI is regularly updated and new data are added in response to the needs of […]

Observatory on measuring health inequalities and equity analysis in Colombia

This entry was posted in Equity and tagged Equity in Health, Health Inequalities, Health Inequality, Latin America, Low- and Middle-Income Countries by Editor Equity/Equidad.

Colombia, Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social Coord. editorial: Juan Carlos Rivillas-Garcia, Diana Catalina Mesa-Lopera, Martha Lucia Ospina-Martínez ISBN: 978-958-8903-38-5 Published online: March 2016 Abstract: In 2015, the Government of Colombia launched the Observatory for Measuring Health Inequalities and Equity Analysis in Colombia (ODES for its acronym in Spanish), as an additional tool to contribute […]

World Health Day 2016 – Global Report on Diabetes = Rapport mondial sur le diabète

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Abstract EN. On the occasion of World Health Day 2016, WHO issues a call for action on diabetes, drawing attention to the need to step up prevention and treatment of the disease. The first WHO Global report on diabetes demonstrates that the number of adults living with diabetes has almost quadrupled since 1980 to 422 […]