"Health equity arises from access to the social determinants of health, specifically from wealth, power and prestige."
An exploration of the unequal distribution of healthcare resources and outcomes across different populations, including those based on race, gender, and socioeconomic status.
Introduction to healthcare disparities: An overview of healthcare disparities, their causes, and their effects on different populations.
Race and ethnicity: A review of the role of race and ethnicity in healthcare disparities, including the impact of discrimination and bias.
Socioeconomic status: An examination of the relationship between socioeconomic status and healthcare disparities, including access to care, quality of care, and health outcomes.
Gender and sexual orientation: An exploration of the ways in which gender and sexual orientation impact healthcare disparities, including differential treatment and access to care.
Age and aging: A discussion of the impact of age and aging on healthcare disparities, including disparities in care for older adults and access to preventive care.
Geography and rural health: A review of the impact of geography on healthcare disparities, including disparities in care for rural populations and access to healthcare facilities.
Language and cultural competence: An examination of the importance of language and cultural competence in healthcare, including the role of language barriers in healthcare disparities.
Health literacy: A discussion of the importance of health literacy in healthcare, including the relationship between low health literacy and healthcare disparities.
Implicit bias: An exploration of the impact of implicit bias on healthcare disparities, including strategies for recognizing and reducing implicit bias in healthcare.
Healthcare policy: An overview of healthcare policy and its role in addressing healthcare disparities, including the Affordable Care Act and other initiatives aimed at reducing disparities.
Racial and ethnic disparities: Differences in healthcare access and outcomes based on racial and ethnic identity.
Gender disparities: Differences in healthcare access and outcomes based on gender, including issues such as unequal treatment, lack of access to reproductive health services, and differences in cardiovascular disease risk.
Geographic disparities: Differences in healthcare access and outcomes based on geographic location, including issues such as lack of primary care providers, transportation barriers, and inadequate hospital facilities.
Health status disparities: Differences in healthcare access and outcomes based on health status, including issues such as lack of access to preventative care and higher rates of chronic disease.
Socioeconomic disparities: Differences in healthcare access and outcomes based on socioeconomic status, including issues such as lack of insurance coverage, lack of access to affordable healthcare, and lower rates of preventative care.
Age-related disparities: Differences in healthcare access and outcomes based on age, including issues such as lack of access to geriatric care and disparities in the treatment of older adults with chronic disease.
Language barriers: Differences in healthcare access and outcomes based on language barriers, including issues such as difficulty understanding medical instructions and lack of access to language services.
Disability-related disparities: Differences in healthcare access and outcomes based on disability status, including issues such as lack of access to accessible facilities and equipment and inadequate training of medical professionals in working with people with disabilities.
LGBT disparities: Differences in healthcare access and outcomes based on sexual orientation and gender identity, including issues such as discrimination and lack of access to culturally competent care.
"Individuals who have consistently been deprived of these three determinants are significantly disadvantaged from health inequities, and face worse health outcomes than those who are able to access certain resources."
"It is not equity to simply provide every individual with the same resources; that would be equality."
"In order to achieve health equity, resources must be allocated based on an individual need-based principle."
"According to the World Health Organization, 'Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity'."
"Health is a basic human right and human need, and all human rights are interconnected."
"Health equity is defined by the CDC as 'the state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health'."
"It is closely associated with the social justice movement, with good health considered a fundamental human right."
"These inequities may include differences in the 'presence of disease, health outcomes, or access to health care': 3 between populations with a different race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or socioeconomic status."
"Health inequality is the term used in a number of countries to refer to those instances whereby the health of two demographic groups (not necessarily ethnic or racial groups) differs despite similar access to health care services."
"It can be further described as differences in health that are avoidable, unfair, and unjust, and cannot be explained by natural causes, such as biology, or differences in choice."
"Thus, if one population dies younger than another because of genetic differences, a non-remediable/controllable factor, we tend to say that there is a health inequality."
"On the other hand, if a population has a lower life expectancy due to a lack of access to medications, the situation would be classified as a health inequity."
"These inequities may include differences in the 'presence of disease, health outcomes, or access to health care'."
"Although it is important to recognize the difference in health equity and equality, having equality in health is essential to begin achieving health equity."
"The importance of equitable access to healthcare has been cited as crucial to achieving many of the Millennium Development Goals."