HEAT Plus

HEAT Plus assesses and monitors health inequalities using user-provided databases to measure within-country, national, and subnational disparities across health indicators and dimensions of inequality, supporting Sustainable Development Goals monitoring.

Key Features:

• Database upload capability: Accepts user-provided databases to enable analyses of health inequalities using local or uploaded data.
• Assessment levels: Enables assessments at global, national, and subnational levels across population groups and geographical regions.
• Indicator and dimension flexibility: Supports a wide array of health indicators and multiple dimensions of inequality for tailored analyses.
• Planned visualization integration: Includes planned integration of interactive graphs and maps to enhance data visualization capabilities.
• Customized analyses: Facilitates detailed comparisons and trend analyses using user-supplied datasets to reflect specific regional or demographic contexts.

Scientific Applications:

• Within-country inequality assessment: Quantifies and compares health outcome disparities across population subgroups and regions within countries.
• Monitoring Sustainable Development Goals: Tracks inequality-related indicators relevant to SDG monitoring and reporting.
• Evidence for policy and interventions: Provides comparative and trend data to inform targeting of policies and interventions to reduce health disparities.
• Customized regional and demographic analyses: Enables analyses tailored to specific regional, demographic, or programmatic contexts using uploaded data.

Methodology:

Performs systematic assessment of health inequality indicators across population groups and geographical regions by leveraging user-provided databases to produce detailed comparisons and trend analyses.