The World Health Organisation launched the Health Inequality Data Repository (HIDR), the most comprehensive global collection of publicly available disaggregated data and evidence on population health and its determinants, to track health inequalities across population groups and over time.
It works by categorizing information based on group characteristics such as education level and ethnicity.
According to data from the repository, the rich-poor gap in health service coverage for pregnant women, new babies, and children in low- and middle-income nations has nearly halved in just the last ten years.
WHO shed light on the fact that in these countries, eliminating wealth-related inequality in under-five mortality could help save the lives of 1.8 million children.
HIDR includes nearly 11 million data points and consists of 59 datasets from over 15 sources.
This data includes measures for more than 2000 indicators divided into 22 categories of inequality, including geographic, demographic, and socioeconomic aspects.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), COVID-19, reproductive, maternity, and child health, immunization, HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria, as well as nutrition, healthcare, non-communicable diseases, and environmental health, are among the subjects covered by HIDR.
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