Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT and HEAT Plus): exploring inequalities in the COVID-19 pandemic era.
Background: The Sustainable Development Goals have helped to focus attention on the importance of reducing inequality and 'leaving no one behind'. Monitoring health inequalities is essential for providing evidence to inform policies, programmes and practices that can close existing gaps and achieve...
| Published in: | International Journal for Equity in Health Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 1 - 12 |
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| Format: | tables/charts Journal Article |
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BioMed Central
12/5/2022
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