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Health and health equity are determined by the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, play and age, as well as biological determinants. Structural determinants (political, legal, and economic) with social norms and institutional processes shape the distribution of power and resources determined by the conditions in which people ...
Understanding these inequities can help us improve health outcomes and promote health equity. Social and Community Context Social context includes the human interactions where one lives, works, learns, plays, and worships. 3 Special programs help protect the health and well-being of people who experience disadvantage.
CDC's Office of Health Equity strives to advance the science and practice of achieving health equity for all.
Building Health Equity into CDC Science. In 2023, CDC published an article on CDC's Health Equity Science Principles which introduces health equity science as a conceptual framework to advance health equity and describes six principles to guide the development, implementation, dissemination, and use of effective health equity science.
CDC’s Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication are intended to help public health professionals, particularly health communicators, within and outside of CDC ensure their communication products and strategies adapt to the specific cultural, linguistic, environmental, and historical situation of each population or audience of focus.
Health equity is the absence of unfair and avoidable or remediable differences in health among population groups defined socially, economically, demographically, geographically, or otherwise. Health equity is intricately linked to both structural and social determinants of health, as these factors influence the distribution of power and resources, as well as health outcomes, experiences, and ...
Health equity is a public health concept describing equity of access to health resources, for genetic, socio-environmental and economic determinants of health varying according to individuals, families and social or societal groups.
The cost of COVID-19 is so high that it demands we do things differently: that we commit to building a fairer and healthier world by taking health equity much more seriously than before – and meet head-on the social and economic factors that cause health inequities.
Health equity is intersectional. This means that individuals belong to more than one group and, therefore, may have overlapping health and social inequities, as well as overlapping strengths and assets. The way people’s social identities overlap should be considered to better understand, interpret, and communicate health outcomes.
The Health Equity Indicators for Cardiovascular Disease (HEI for CVD) toolkit includes a wide range of health equity indicators (HEIs) that can serve as a resource and inspire health care and public health professionals to incorporate health equity–relevant metrics and processes into strategic planning, site selection, and evaluation.