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What is Health Equity?

  • May 26, 2017
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Braveman P, Arkin E, Orleans T, Proctor D, Plough A
  • Community Power
  • Health Care Access and Quality
  • Systemic Oppression
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What is Health Equity? What is Health Equity?

Health equity surrounds and underpins all of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health Action Areas and the goal of a society in which everyone has an equal opportunity to live the healthiest life possible.

Simply put, “health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be healthier. This requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and housing, safe environments, and health care.”

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Original Link: http://www.rwjf.orghttp://www.rwjf.org/en/library/research/2017/04/what-is-health-equity-.html

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