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Define health equity.
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Provide an example of a health policy and identify the equity dimensions of the policy.
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Does the policy impact different groups in society in different ways? does the policy discriminate against particular groups or individuals? health equity is ensuring that everyone has a chance to be as healthy as possible.
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However, social and environmental factors can limit a person's access to and continued use of good health practices and health care.
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Examples of obstacles include racial and ethical discrimination, lack of access to quality education, income and wealth gaps, inadequate housing or lack of housing, and unsafe environments.
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Healthy quality means everyone has the same opportunities, where health equity means that people have opportunities based on their needs.
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So for example, here a policy that shows us is such as when they provide immunizations for students at the local school.
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Everyone has the opportunity to go, and this is usually done free of charge, at least it is in my community.
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Everyone has the opportunity to go to get the immunizations that their child needs to enroll in public school.
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But that's health equality.
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The reason is not health equity is because there are people that may not have adequate transportation to get to the school.
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So even though everyone has the same opportunities, health equality, there's nothing to help with the needs of them.
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So we're not meeting health equity.
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So how can we do that? examples of health equity.
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Providing health seminars and courses that are specific to the needs of certain ethnic communities and racial groups.
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Providing low -cost services to those living in a low -income household, such as providing sliding scale fees.
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This is a big one.
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It is not enough to just have a low -cost clinic necessarily, that is available to people because low cost still cost money and that low cost is still too much for some households.
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But providing a sliding fee can help mitigate this...