Health Equity – Improving health and health care worldwide requires a focus on equity — equity of access, treatments, and outcomes. Health equity is realized when each individual has a fair opportunity to achieve their full health potential. Differences in access, treatment, and outcomes between individuals and across populations that are systemic, avoidable, predictable, and unjust …
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What is Health Equity?
What is Health Equity? – Health equity is the state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health. Achieving this requires ongoing societal efforts to: Address historical and contemporary injustices; Overcome economic, social, and other obstacles to health and health care; and Eliminate preventable health disparities. [1,2] To achieve health …