The lack of formal analysis of health inequality impacts in health technology assessment and economic evaluation may hinder their influence on decision making. This online course addresses that gap by teaching participants how to quantify health inequality impacts in economic evaluation of health policies and interventions. An introduction will set the context for how and why impact on health inequality is central to allocation decisions in health. Participants will learn about common measures used to summarise the extent of inequality in a distribution of healthy life expectancy, including the slope index of inequality and the relative index of inequality. They will learn how to communicate the dual impacts of interventions on both average health and health inequality using the health equity impact plane. They will also learn how impacts on total health and health inequality can be combined in summary measures that value health inequality impacts in terms of either societal welfare or health.
Supporting documentation will be distributed via e-mail to registered participants.
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