Health inequity

Health inequity

Unfair, avoidable or remediable differences in health among groups of people. In some cases, the absence of a difference between groups (that is, a situation of equality) might be considered inequitable. Health inequity is rooted in the unfair distribution of, and access to, power, wealth and other social resources, and is linked to forms of disadvantage that are socially produced, such as poverty, discrimination and lack of access to services or goods (83).