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Working on Health Equity CPAA Consumer Advisory Committee 10/24/2017 Definitions Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. This requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty,

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Working on Health Equity

CPAA Consumer Advisory Committee 10/24/2017

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Definitions

Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just

  • pportunity to be as healthy as possible. 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. For the purposes of measurement, health equity means reducing and ultimately eliminating disparities in health and its determinants that adversely affect excluded or marginalized groups.

What is Health Equity? And What Difference Does a Definition Make, RWJF Report

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What undermines equity

  • Implicit Bias
  • -isms (discrimination)
  • Structural inequity

Your zip code is a bigger determinant of health than your genetic code

  • Understand disparities and their causes
  • Analyze gaps and resources in context
  • Develop a habit of thinking and decision making
  • Focus your impact
  • Measure results

How do you work on equity?

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What this means for the Consumer Advisory Committee

  • Committee is asked to think about advancing

health equity when providing input on projects, work group products, strategic direction, etc.

  • Committee will be asked to assess health equity

implications in all recommendations and feedback

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Health Equity Definition:

Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just

  • pportunity to be as healthy as possible. 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. For the purposes of measurement, health equity means reducing and ultimately eliminating disparities in health and its determinants that adversely affect excluded or marginalized groups.

What is Health Equity? And What Difference Does a Definition Make, RWJF Report