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...
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 ...
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,...
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR EQUITY IN HEALTH《国际卫生公平杂志》 国际标准刊号:ISSN 1475-9276/EISSN 1475-9276 核心类别:SSCI(2022版), 外文期刊, 投稿网址:editorialmanager.com/ij 期刊网址:equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com 期刊简介:INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR EQUITY IN HEALTH《国际卫生公平杂志》(年刊). Intern...
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 ...
Build back fairer: achieving health equity in the Eastern Mediterranean region of WHOdoi:10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00710-8Michael MarmotAhmed Al-MandhariAbdul GhaffarMaha El-AdawyJessica AllenThe Lancet
However, data is lacking on a well-defined scale as to who benefited and who lost from the reform. This study seeks to fill the gap in the literature by analyzing the relative changes in access to care across different population groups due to the reform. The analysis focuses on four ...
Only one in four organizations we surveyed have defined health equity or DOH strategies. Measure and evaluate: Programs and investments need clear goals—and goals should look beyond traditional financial and health outcomes Fewer than one in five (19%) respondents say they are measuring outcomes ...
The theme of equity was also seminal to the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion adopted in 1986 at the inaugural International Conference on Health Promotion, led by WHO and hosted by the Canadian Government. The framing of health promotion, as “the process of enabling people to increase cont...
We describe two main ways of using CEA to address health equity concerns: 1) equity impact analysis, which quantifies the distribution of costs and effects by equity-relevant variables, such as socioeconomic status, location, ethnicity, sex, and severity of illness; and 2) equity trade-off ...