ENSURE HEALTH EQUITY FOR ALL

 

Miss Fazila Ishfaq Global Action Ambassador and Director of WBM Foundation is working on health and ensuring equity for all.

What is health equity?

Health equity focuses on meeting communities and individuals where they are, and ensuring that society provides the services, conditions and resources they need to achieve an equitable level of health.

 

Why Equity Matters

Across the nation, gaps in health are large, persistent and increasing—many of them caused by barriers set up at all levels of our society. After all, it's hard to be healthy without access to good jobs and schools and, safe, affordable homes. Health equity means increasing opportunities for everyone to live the healthiest life possible, no matter who we are, where we live, or how much money we make.

Explore the Evidence

Health is about much more than genetics and medical care. Research has shown that the conditions we face as we live, learn, work and play—what researchers call the social determinants of health—also have a lot to do with how healthy we are.

 

Health equity – by definition – must be for all people. It is the only route to a humane, just society.

 

Health equity aims to protect the underserved and underrepresented

Underserved and underrepresented populations consist of vast numbers of people across the globe, yet these groups are systemically and chronically made vulnerable to disease, inadequate living conditions, violence, hunger and other morbidities. They are overwhelmingly populations of color, poor, non-cisgender, non-heterosexual, unhoused, mentally ill, disabled and the otherwise vulnerable.