Definition | 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, 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. Update by Jon |
| Elements | Build Community Capacity for Delivery – enhance infrastructure and expertise
Build Community Capacity for Delivery – select/train community-based interventionists (an interim intervention)
Design Study, Methods, and Measures for Community Setting – develop rigorous study design that is appropriate for intervention delivered in community setting
Design Study, Methods, and Measures for Community Setting – develop outreach, recruitment, and data collection strategies appropriate for population and setting
Design Study, Methods, and Measures for Community Setting – select measures of outcomes, mediators, and moderators that are relevant and appropriate for populationIdentify
Community Infrastructure and Engage
Health Equity
Specify Theory – Determine theoretical basis for behavioral changes
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