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The Concept of Health Equity (Social Determinants of Health (Unequal…
The Concept of Health Equity
Public Health
Health Policy
Health is influenced by social policies, allocation of health care resources, and the financing of health care
Right to highest attainable standard of health - set forth in the WHO Constitution
Equality can be assessed with respect to specified measurable outcomes
Human health is a legal obligation on states to ensure access to timely, affordable health care
Government must provide for the underlying determinants of health i.e, safe water, food, sanitation, housing, gender equality, health information
Rights-based approach
Core Principles of Human Rights
Accountability
Equality and non-discrimination
Participation
Human rights must be universal indivisible, and interdependent
Core Components of the right to health
Availability
Accessibility
Acceptability
Quality
Social Justice
Ethical concept
The absence of socially unjust or unfair health disparities
Absence of systemic disparities between social groups in a social hierarchy
Social Advantage/Disadvantage
Wealth, power, prestige
Health is essential to overcoming other effects of social disadvantage
Social Determinants of Health
Services
Income
Goods
Power
Education
Unequal distribution of these social determinants lead to inequities
Affects access to health care
Unequal distribution caused by poor social policies and programmes
Shaped by structural determinants and conditions of daily life
To achieve health equity through targeting social determinants of health - government, civil society, and communities must be involved
Commission on Social Determinants of Health
Calls for the closing of the health gap
3 Principles of Action
Improve the conditions of daily life
Tackle the inequitable distribution of power, money, and resources
Measure, evaluate, expand knowledge, and raise awareness