Urban health equity assessment and response tool project [Urban HEART]: socioeconomic determinants and health status of people living in Sale City, Morocco
"The Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool (Urban HEART) is a userfriendly guide for policy-makers and decision-makers at national and local levels to identify and analyse inequities in health between people living in various parts of cities or belonging to different socioeconomic groups within and across cities. The tool facilitates decisions on viable and effective strategies, interventions and actions that should be used to reduce intercity and intracity health inequities. Actions taken outside the health sector are likely to have greater effect than those taken through the health sector alone.
Corrective action must include changes in the social determinants of health, such as the elimination of slums, creation of industrial parks, development of income- generating activities and the assurance of education for all.
The Urban HEART approach will enable decision-makers to become informed about the priorities of their area by providing easily read colour-coded results to help them put health at the centre of attention.
Morocco is experiencing political change and it would be advisable to integrate the Government’s global strategy regarding social determinants of health into regions to enable the Urban HEART approach to be fully integrated into the health programme of each region. "
Self Audit | 2012
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: City | Author/Publisher: WHO EMRO