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Health Equity
Also Known As Equity in Health
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The principle that everyone should have a fair opportunity to attain their full health potential, and that no one should be disadvantaged from achieving it because of social position or other socially determined circumstance. It is distinguished from equality, which would give everyone the same resources regardless of need.
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Equity in health is named by the Ottawa Charter as a focus of health promotion action.
Whitehead's widely used equity/inequality distinction (1991) is framed against the social gradient in health.
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