KIN 232 = Module 4

everyone has access to the same resources regardless of their background or circumstance

everyone is treated the same, having access to the same resources, tools, and opportunities to achieve positive health outcomes

- concerned with an outcome or state of being
- no moral/ethical judgement is made about the reasons why groups differ

- differences in health outcomes and/or health detriments between population groups
- includes any measurable/quantifiable aspects of health that varies across population groups

- age
- genetics
- sex
- ethnic background

- age
- individuals' choice
- psychosocial ffactors

- when modifiable factors are unjust, unfair and avoidable
- result of inequity

- affects marginalized groups because of their income, social class, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, disability status, geographic location or combo (intersectionality)
- people in marginalized groups experience worse health and tend to have less access to opportunities that support improved health

- giving everyone the support they need based on their specific background and circumstance
- requires addressing and eliminating health inequity as well as creating a society that does not produce inequality
- equalizing the circumstances over which people have no control and equalizing access to conditions that enable people to realize themselves however they wish

reducing and ultimately eliminating health disparity

- removing systemic and discriminatory obstacles to equal access to health (including health determinants)
- fix the system to remove obstacles completely
- equal through equitable approaches