Health equity, broadly defined as the reduction of avoidable and unfair inequalities in health, recently emerged as a central concern amongst a wide range of actors in global health, with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) playing a pivotal ...
The best achievable health is defined as the median of the most privileged identifiable group, here white men in the top income category. The formula for the health equity metric is as follows: in which HEM is the health equality metric, N is the total number of individuals in the sample,...
“We cannot close in on global health equity without clarity on what health challenges people with disabilities face,” said Phyllis Heydt, co-founder of the Missing Billion Initiative, an organization founded to transform health systems to be inclusive of the 1.3 billi...
Health equity means that everyone has a fair opportunity to be as healthy as possible. Healthy People 2030 defines health disparity as “a particular is closely linked with social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage”. Health disparities adversely affect people who have experienced greater obs...
The constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO), a specialized agency of the United Nations, since 1948 has defined health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (World Health Organization,2014). The WHO has...
Health equity is a compelling opportunity—and a challenge that pharmaceutical and life sciences players, both individually and collectively, are uniquely positioned to address. By following a defined approach that relentlessly follows the data and by working together, organizations can not o...
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The main goal of this paper is to unravel the social distribution of childcare policies: who benefits from government investment on public childcare? If ch... J Ghysels 被引量: 11发表: 2011年 Assessing equity in benefit distribution of government health subsidy in 2012 across East China: benefi...
The missing billion: Lack of disability data impedes healthcare equity (19 pages) Around the world, 1.3 billion people, or 16 percent of the population, are living with significant disabilities, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).1 By and large, these individuals experience ...
Health equity gets defined in many different ways, but it’s really just everyone having a fair and just opportunity to attain the highest level of health. That’s really it. And that’s for everybody. There is poor health equity in rural America; there’s poor health e...