In 2009, a Health Care Committee was added to the Justice & Witness Commission.
Achieving Health Equity
What is health equity?
A basic principle of public health is that all people have a right to health.
Health equity, as understood in public health literature and practice, is when everyone has the opportunity to “attain their full health potential” and no one is “disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of their social position or other socially determined circumstance.”
Social determinants of health are life-enhancing resources, such as food supply, housing, economic and social relationships, transportation, education, and health care, whose distribution across populations effectively determines length and quality of life.
Source: CDC’s Promoting Health Equity - A Resource to Help Communities Address Social Determinants of Health
Links of interest:
- Faithful Reform in Health Care: www.faithfulreform.org This page includes action steps that you can begin with your congregation and in your community today!
Includes a side by side comparison of major health care reform proposals
