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Health Equity and Health Systems Concepts (Equity (Focuses attention on…
Health Equity and Health Systems Concepts
Equity
Value based
Focuses attention on the distribution of resources
Finance, education, housing, employment, transport, and health.
Ethical Principle
Distributive justice
Closely related to the human rights principle
The right to health
Everyone deserves the same right and opportunity to health care
Inherently normative
Ethical Concept
Social justice/fairness
Equity in Health
Cannot be directly measured
Allows equal opportunity for health care of appropriate quality
Includes entire population
Resources are distributed and processes designed to aid in equalising the health outcomes of the disadvantaged groups
Using resources and processes to the best of their ability to eliminate health inequity
To closely match services to the level of need
ex: everyone having access to a doctor
Elimination of all systematic differences in health status between socioeconomic groups
Income should not determine what level of care you get
3 Key Features
Improve the conditions of daily life
Health, finance, work, house, transport
Improving daily life conditions helps with the long-term.
Having the finances or insurance to afford medications that are prescribed by a doctor
Tackle the inequitable distribution of power, money, and resources globally, nationally, and locally
Rural areas should have access to the same important resources that urban areas do
Measure the problem, evaluate action, expand the knowledge base, develop a workforce that is trained in the social determinants of health, and raise public awareness about these determinants
If the problem is not public knowledge/made aware for everyone to know it makes it more difficult to tackle and solve the problem
Principles and Standards of Rights-Based Approach to Health Equity
Accountability
Those who are accountable have the responsibility to make the available resources be as beneficial as possible
Equality and Non-discrimination
Focus on the social determinants affecting the right to health
In order to fix the problem you must focus on what is causing it
Participation
Making sure those that those in disadvantaged groups are considered