From the American Public Health Association, learn about health equity vs. health equality, and a public health approach that tackles health differences that are avoidable, unnecessary and unjust, and works to improve everyone’s health.
From the American Cancer Society, this resource highlights the ways in which systemic racism unfairly affects disadvantaged individuals and communities.
From the American Medical Association, this conversation between leaders in public health and academia discuss the power of data in understanding health inequities which include COVID-19, the social and political context surrounding data and data analysis, as well as the challenges of quantifying health inequities & the structural and social determinants of health.
