1. health equity: "attainment of the highest level of health for all people. Achieving health equity requires
valuing everyone equally with focused and ongoing societal efforts to address avoidable inequalities, historical and
contemporary injustices, and the elimination of health and health care disparities."
2. health equity principle: All social groups must have a minimum level of health and well-being.
3. all of us: public health is about the health of?
4. health equality: health equity is not the same as?
5. health disparities: differences that occur by gender, race or ethnicity, education or income, disability, living
in rural localities, or sexual orientation.'
6. - The right to health
- The need to address social determinants of health to enhance the well-being
of a population
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, - The principles of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity to assert health as
a human right: what do the Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Universal Declaration of
Human Rights outline about guidance?
7. health equity and health equality: what are not synonymous?
8. value-based: health equity is...
9. an empiric measure: health equality is...
10. health inequality: refers to any differences between two groups
11. health inequity: - Comes from modifiable systematic health inequalities between more and less advantaged
social groups.
- Inequities are avoidable, unnecessary, and unfair health inequalities.Health Equity and Health Equality
12. avoidable, unnecessary, unfair: health inequities are , , and .
13. younger individuals are, on average, healthier than the elderly: what is example of
health inequalities (biological differences)?
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