Creating health equity

Creating health equity

Creating health equity is a key and fundamental aspect of every government. According to () Significant disparities in health outcomes persists to widen across the United States. Inequities in most cases are reflected based on the differences such as the quality and the length of life, the rate of diseases among other factors. As a result, the health care plays a significant role either towards achieving health equity by addressing the existing disparities directly at the point of care or by positively impacting the various determinants that tend to broaden these disparities. Health inequities to () involves more than inequality concerning health determinants, the general access to resources that purpose to improve and enhance health outcomes. It also captures the aspect of failing to avoid the inequalities that contravene on fairness and human rights behaviors. Therefore, health equity is a program that purposes to ensure that everyone has the right and the opportunity to access and attain the highest levels of health. Health disparities persist within and between populations and by certain measures are widening despite more than a century of both broad-based and targeted public health interventions. As was the case during the Progressive Era, the social determinants of health and urban planning are again coming to the fore as a framework and a model for reducing health inequities in urban settings. The three mechanisms that increase health equity are Access to material and other resources, Enhanced physical and social environment, increased opportunities and political power. It also includes integrating effective and sustainable health systems that go beyond remedying a particular health inequality and creating system changes such as law reforms, changes in economic and social reforms to empower various groups in achieving health equity.