Measuring and addressing health inequities in Nepal
WHO/A. Maharjan This elderly woman has had more time to spend with her granddaughters since the COVID-19 pandemic. Nepal © Credits 5 May 2021 Monitoring health inequalities is essential for achieving Universal Health Coverage because it enables populations that are being left behind to be identified and helps to inform equity-oriented policies, programmes and practices. Such monitoring requires various forms of disaggregated data, which are currently lacking in many countries (ref World Health Statistics 2020). Nepal expressed early interes...