ACHIEVING HEALTH EQUITY
How do we achieve health equity? How do we move from health inequity to health equity?
We get there by focusing first and foremost on those individuals and groups who are falling short – for example, due to race, ethnicity, caste, gender, sexual orientation, disability, geographic location, neighborhood, socioeconomic status, etc. –and ensure for them the same conditions of health and flourishing as the better off. Disproportionate effort is justified to help disadvantaged individuals and groups reduce their deprivations in health.
This involves developing internal and external health capabilities with a pathway to a post-inequity society.
Ultimately, this entails effectuating principles of justice explained in the health capability paradigm at the
domestic level and provincial globalism at the global level.
Shared health governance is the theory undergirding equitable public policy and institutions to deliver health equity domestically and globally.
