Reducing Health Disparities Flashcards
What is equity?
absence of unfair, avoidable or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically or by other dimensions of inequality (e.g. sex, gender, ethnicity, disability, or sexual orientation).
How do you know when health equity is achieved?
everyone can attain their full potential for health and well-being
What are structural determinants that shape distribution of power and resources alongside social norms and institutional processes?
political legal and economic
How are people’s living conditions made worse?
discrimination, stereotyping, and prejudice based on sex, gender, age, race, ethnicity, or disability, among other factors which is embedded in institutional and systems processes
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What can disadvantage and marginalization do for health?
Disadvantage and marginalization serve to exclude certain populations in societies from enjoying good health. Three of the world’s most fatal communicable diseases – malaria, HIV and tuberculosis – disproportionately affect the world’s poorest populations, and in many cases are compounded and exacerbated by other inequalities and inequities including gender, age, sexual orientation or gender identity and migration status. Conversely the burden of non-communicable diseases – often perceived as affecting high-income countries – is increasing disproportionately among lower-income countries and populations, and is largely associated with lifestyle and behaviour factors as well as environmental determinants, such as safe housing, water and sanitation that are inextricably linked to human rights.
