This page describes the resources available in CIHI’s Measuring Health Inequalities toolkit to help you identify and report key findings from your health inequalities analysis. These resources aim to aid users in interpreting results to identify key findings and exploring different ways to report findings to your target audiences. For more information on how to apply these resources to report your findings, complete 1047E-Measuring Health Inequalities: Reporting Your Findings — 1 of 4 courses in our online series on measuring health inequalities, available in CIHI’s Learning Centre.
Interpret results for key findings
Review and organize your results
Review the results of your analysis from the Analysis phase.
CIHI often presents results using a combination of data tables and data visualizations embedded within reports. Using a variety of data tables and visualizations can help you organize and explore your results to identify patterns of inequality.
- CIHI’s Asthma Hospitalizations Among Children and Youth in Canada: Trends and Inequalities presents examples of how stratified analyses can be visualized and key messages can be highlighted.
Download the document (PDF) - CIHI’s Hospital Stays for Harm Caused by Substance Use Among Youth Age 10 to 24 includes additional examples of how data visualizations and stratified data tables can be used to present results.
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Present findings to your audience
Consider the context and impact of your findings
Review the literature and data to consider the context and impact of your findings. For example,
- Describe the population subgroups (e.g., the percentage of the population in each subgroup, the mean income in each income quintile).
- Describe the significance of your health indicator (e.g., the prevalence, financial and personal cost associated with the health indicator).
- Describe the impact of your health inequality findings, such as the potential for health system improvement (e.g., report on the potential rate reduction and population impact number).
- Identify opportunities, such as policies and programs, for addressing the inequalities suggested by your key findings.
- Resource: Intervention Scan Guide
An intervention scan can help your audience identify opportunities for reducing the health inequalities revealed by your analysis. Use this document to plan your search strategy and organize your results.
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Tailor your message
Tailor your key messages and visualizations to your audience by considering their level of expertise and how they will use the information.
- Resource: Measuring Health Inequalities: A Toolkit — Supplementary Resources
This document includes resources from various organizations that can aid users in the planning and analysis phases, as well as in their reporting on health inequalities. For a list of resources relevant to reporting, see the Reporting and communication section.
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