What is Health Equity?

This webpage provides information about health equity, including a definition, factors affecting health equity, including the social determinants of health, and ways to promote health equity at the national, state, community, and individual levels.

Understanding the Upstream Social Determinants of Health

This working paper describes and categorizes three types of approaches used to examine upstream social determinants of health, like social disadvantage, risk exposure, and social inequities that play a fundamental causal role in poor health outcomes. It also...
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