What is Health Equity, and Why Do We Need to Address it?
ALL ABOUT HEALTH EQUITY
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What is Health Equity?
Health inequity is a complex problem that requires careful investigation from multiple perspectives.
“Health equity is about more than individuals or individual behavior; it’s also about the history and context of places and systems. It’s about system-level factors contributing to inequities in health and opportunities - to experience educations, work, safe housing, and clean environments.”
HELPFUL RESOURCES TO LEARN ABOUT HEALTH EQUITY
From other organizations focused on Health Equity
Dedicated health equity webpage from the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation
Health Equity Interest Group at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Site offers multiple articles with a nursing focus.
More coming soon
“When every person has the opportunity to attain their full health potential. We achieve health equity by eliminating avoidable, unfair, or remediable health differences among populations, whether defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically.”