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Equity - Inequity - Disparity: What's the Difference?

Health Equity: Attainment of the highest level of health for all people. Health Equity means efforts to ensure that all people have full and equal access to opportunities that enable them to lead healthy lives. Learn more from the Health Equity Framework

Health Inequities: Differences in health that are avoidable, unfair, and unjust. Health inequities are affected by social, economic, and environmental conditions. Learn more about what affects health inequities.

Health Disparities: Differences in health outcomes among groups of people. Learn more about what affects health disparities.

The concepts of health equity and health disparity are inseparable in their practical implementation. Policies and practices aimed at promoting the goal of health equity will not immediately eliminate all health disparities, but they will provide a foundation for moving closer to that goal.

Summarized from Healthy People 2020

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Health Equity Guide This website is structured around a set of strategic practices that health departments can apply to more meaningfully and comprehensively advance health equity. Over and over, more health departments are asking “What are the strategic steps we can take to advance health equity at our health department?” This resource showcases success stories from across the United States to answer this question.
American Public Health Association: Health Equity Contains fact sheets, research on topics and issues. Special emphasis given to climate change, gun violence, environmental health, health reform, tobacco, and vaccines.
Creating Health Equity Through Community Engagement This report from the APHA Center for Public Health Policy makes the argument for community engagement and lays out an approach.
Health in All Policies: A Guide for State and Local Governments This guide was written for the public health facilitators of the California Health in All Policies Task Force, and is geared toward state and local government leaders who want to use intersectoral collaboration to promote healthy environments.
Implementing Community Strategies for Engagement and Sustainability to Advance Health Equity A webinar designed to explain how authentic community engagement strategies are established and maintained to benefit priority populations. Also addressed are the unintended consequences that may be experienced by these populations. Ways to ensure that health equity is at the forefront of designing and planning community initiatives is discussed.

The social and economic factors to be addressed include housing, educational opportunities, quality affordable healthcare, neighborhood conditions, environmental quality, stable income & job security, food security and access to healthy food, and discrimination/minority stressors.

DBH 9022: Health Equity

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Equity - Inequity - Disparity: What's the Difference?

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