Department of Data and Analytics, Division of Data, Analytics and Delivery for Impact, World Health Organization, 20, Avenue Appia, CH-1211, Geneva 27, Switzerland.
Int J Equity Health. 2022 Sep 13;21(1):133. doi: 10.1186/s12939-022-01739-9.
Health inequality monitoring can generate important evidence to inform and motivate changes to policy, programmes and practices. However, the potential of health inequality monitoring practices to quantify inequalities between population subgroups and track progress on the advancement of health equity is under-realized. Capacity strengthening on health inequality monitoring can play an important role in enhancing political will for the generation and use of disaggregated data and for wider adoption of this practice to inform health decision-making. There is a lack of widely available and accessible training materials related to health inequality monitoring that may be used by a range of stakeholders.
In this paper, we describe the design, development and implementation of the Health Inequality Monitoring channel on the OpenWHO eLearning platform. We discuss the anticipated impact and potential opportunities for these eLearning courses to contribute to strengthened health inequality monitoring practices.
The Health Inequality Monitoring channel on the OpenWHO platform is a self-directed learning environment, designed to meet the immediate learning needs of users. The channel contains three series of courses: health inequality monitoring foundations courses; topic-specific health inequality monitoring courses; and health inequality monitoring skill building courses. Courses are primarily targeted to monitoring and evaluation officers, data analysts, academics and researchers, public health professionals, medical and public health students, and others with a general interest in health data and inequality monitoring.
WHO eLearning courses on health inequality monitoring are addressing the need for capacity strengthening in the collection, analysis and reporting of inequality data. They introduce learners to the foundational concepts, best practices, tools and skills required to conduct health inequality monitoring. The courses on the Health Inequality Monitoring channel demonstrate how technical information can be simplified and presented to broad audiences in a manner that is highly accessible to learners. The Health Inequality Monitoring channel on OpenWHO is an innovative and necessary addition to existing tools and resources to support the advancement of health equity.
健康不平等监测可以提供重要证据，为政策、规划和实践的变革提供信息并提供动力。然而，健康不平等监测实践在量化人口亚群之间的不平等以及跟踪实现健康公平方面的进展方面的潜力尚未得到充分发挥。加强健康不平等监测方面的能力可以在增强为生成和使用分类数据以及更广泛地采用这一实践以辅助健康决策而产生政治意愿方面发挥重要作用。目前缺乏广泛可用和易于获取的与健康不平等监测相关的培训材料，这些材料可能会被一系列利益攸关方使用。
本文描述了在 OpenWHO 电子学习平台上开设健康不平等监测频道的设计、开发和实施情况。我们讨论了这些电子学习课程对加强健康不平等监测实践的预期影响和潜在机会。
OpenWHO 平台上的健康不平等监测频道是一个自主学习环境，旨在满足用户的即时学习需求。该频道包含三个系列的课程：健康不平等监测基础课程；特定主题的健康不平等监测课程；以及健康不平等监测技能建设课程。这些课程主要面向监测和评估官员、数据分析师、学者和研究人员、公共卫生专业人员、医学和公共卫生学生以及对健康数据和不平等监测有一般兴趣的其他人员。
世卫组织关于健康不平等监测的电子学习课程满足了在收集、分析和报告不平等数据方面的能力建设需求。它们向学习者介绍了进行健康不平等监测所需的基础概念、最佳实践、工具和技能。健康不平等监测频道上的课程展示了如何将技术信息简化并以学习者易于理解的方式呈现给广泛受众。OpenWHO 上的健康不平等监测频道是支持实现健康公平的现有工具和资源的创新和必要补充。
