To better understand the goal of Health Equity, you need to learn what causes health differences among groups of people.
Health inequities are differences in health that are avoidable, unfair, and unjust. Social, economic, and environmental conditions are the main factors that can affect health in several ways creating health inequities.
Social Inequities occur when a person is treated unfairly because of things like race, class, gender, or immigration status. Institutions such as corporations or schools have the power to create unequal opportunities based on social status. Unequal opportunities lead's to poor educational outcomes and fewer job opportunities creating economic disadvantage.
For example, a boy who is graduating from college can earn over 40,000 dollars more per year than someone who did not finish high school. Income can determine the place of your residence. The environmental conditions of a neighborhood can affect a person’s health.
Lower-income residential areas tend to be in poor social and environmental conditions. Due to this, these areas have a high rate of crimes or limited access to healthy foods and safe places to exercise.
Health disparities causes due by social, economic, and environmental conditions, which are differences in health among groups of people. Health Behaviors causes disparities.
If people are not educated and have no good job they do not know how to lead a healthy lifestyle or they lack to make healthy choices, they may choose certain behaviors. Behaviors such as smoking, poor nutrition, or unsafe behaviors increase the chances of developing chronic conditions or diseases, which can affect how long someone lives. Persons who smoke live at least 10 years less than nonsmokers. Health Disparities can also be affected by genetics.
We learn more every day about how our genetic makeup makes us more vulnerable to certain health problems. If people have access to quality health care it reduces inequities and disparities but health is more than just disease or illness.
Health is how we treat other people. The opportunities we are given where we live and our everyday behaviors.
Nobody should be denied the chance to live a long healthy life because of social, economic, or environmental conditions. If we want to achieve health equity, we need to eliminate avoidable health inequities and health disparities. It needs to create fair opportunities for health, provide equal access to resources and invest in low-income neighborhoods. Health Equity will be achieved when everyone can reach their full health potential.
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