Module 4: Key Concepts to Promoting PA In Canadian Society

Question 1

Equality

Answer 1

there is evenly distributed tools & assistance
- will only work if everyone starts at the same place

Question 2

Equality & Health Equality

Answer 2

everyone has access to the same resources (tools, assistance), regardless of their background or circumstance

Question 3

Health equality

Answer 3

everyone is treated the same, having access to the same resources, tools, and opportunities to achieve positive health outcomes, including PA (health determinant)

Question 4

Does health equality exist?

Answer 4

everyone must start from the same place, assumes everyone benefits from the same approaches (regardless of their background or circumstances)

Question 5

Inequality

Answer 5

unequal access to opportunities, concerned with an outcome or state of being

Question 6

Health inequality

Answer 6

differences in health outcomes and/or health determinants (e.g., physical activity between population groups)

Question 7

Health disparity

Answer 7

an inequality that arises from unjust, unfair, and avoidable health inequalities
- affects marginalized groups, inequities are avoidable

Question 8

Equity

Answer 8

custom tools that identify and address inequality (means giving everyone the support they need)
- actual fairness

Question 9

Health Equity

Answer 9

reducing and ultimately eliminating health disparity (outcome)
- seek to create equal opportunities but through approaches tailored to marginalized groups

Question 10

Goals of Health Equity

Answer 10

1. addressing and eliminating health inequity
2. creating a society that does not produce inequality
3. equalizing the circumstances and equalizing access

Question 11

Justice

Answer 11

fixing the system to offer equal access to both tools & opportunities - removing the barriers

Question 12

Social Justice

Answer 12

removing systemic and discriminatory obstacles to equal access to health, including health determinants
- fix the system to remove obstacles completely
- everyone is now equal because opportunity is equal
- a long process

Question 13

System

Answer 13

interconnected relationships between individuals, groups, and institutions with shared behaviours, norms, and values that combine to form society
- obstacles are engrained in our society: thinking, practices, and action