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What is Health Equity?

Achieving the optimal level of health for all people. This is achieved by focusing on societal efforts to address avoidable inequialities by equalizing the conditions for health for all groups, espically for those who have experience socioeconomic disadvantages or historical injustices.

• Health is more than health care.  
• Health is tied to the distribution of resources.
• Racism imposes an added health burden.
• The choices we make are shaped by the choices we have.      
• High demand + low control = chronic stress.
• Chronic stress can be toxic.
• Inequality - economic and political - is bad for our health.
• Social policy is health policy.
• Health inequalities are not natural.
• We all pay the price for poor health.

                 (Source: www.unnaturalcauses.org/ten_things.php)

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the
most shocking and the most inhumane.”

~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

At the Second Annual Convention on the Medical Committee for Human Rights, Chicago, March 25, 1966