FOR Equity Thermometer and Screening Tool
Find out what your health equity temperature is or how “equity cool” are you?
Reducing health and healthcare inequalities and improving population health is a vision shared by many individuals, organisations, and sectors. However, deciding what actions are appropriate in each context can be challenging. Making sense of and implementing an equity lens systematically may require wider system changes, whilst collaborating individuals/groups may be at different stages of that journey.
The FOR Equity Thermometer and Screening Tool is a free tool that was developed collaboratively by academics and members of the public with lived experience of health inequalities, funded by the NIHR ARC NWC, and primarily aiming to support health equity research. It can be used flexibly to apply to individual research projects, teams or whole organizations and it can:
If you would like to know more about the story behind the development of the FOR Equity Thermometer and Screening tool click here
If you have accessed the FOR Equity Thermometer and Screening Tool via the FOR Equity web-resource, please note that it is available to integrate in your organization’s website/intranet for easier access. Please email [email protected] for more information.
If you have accessed the FOR Equity Thermometer and Screening Tool via another website, please note that it is hosted at https://forequity.uk/ - a web-based platform that aims to strengthen the focus on equity in research.
Reducing health and healthcare inequalities and improving population health is a vision shared by many individuals, organisations, and sectors. However, deciding what actions are appropriate in each context can be challenging. Making sense of and implementing an equity lens systematically may require wider system changes, whilst collaborating individuals/groups may be at different stages of that journey.
The FOR Equity Thermometer and Screening Tool is a free tool that was developed collaboratively by academics and members of the public with lived experience of health inequalities, funded by the NIHR ARC NWC, and primarily aiming to support health equity research. It can be used flexibly to apply to individual research projects, teams or whole organizations and it can:
- be employed as a quick diagnostic tool
- offer a simple way to communicate the journey to equity and prompt the development of action plans and strategies
- be used as an impact measure allowing the monitoring of progress
If you would like to know more about the story behind the development of the FOR Equity Thermometer and Screening tool click here
If you have accessed the FOR Equity Thermometer and Screening Tool via the FOR Equity web-resource, please note that it is available to integrate in your organization’s website/intranet for easier access. Please email [email protected] for more information.
If you have accessed the FOR Equity Thermometer and Screening Tool via another website, please note that it is hosted at https://forequity.uk/ - a web-based platform that aims to strengthen the focus on equity in research.
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