How the World Health Organization is using data visualisation to present information on inequalities in health system performance across the European Union

Background

The World Health Organization (WHO) embarked on a project to improve the availability of and access to evidence on inequalities in health system performance, including quality of care and the structural determinants of these inequalities. The project’s initial focus was on countries in the European Union.

The aim was to take into account the geographical nature of the regional data and not just to reflect national averages. The WHO team was led by Dr Claudia Stein and also included Drs Enrique Loyola, Ivo Rakovac and Anatoliy Nosikov who are based in Denmark. Dr Loyola explains that the intention was to use data  at the regional (NUTS2) level that was already available and avoid requests for further information. “Part of what we were hoping to achieve was to show that there is already a lot of data out there and that it is often not fully analysed.”

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