HEALTH EQUITY

Fury Maulina
There are multiple
approaches to understanding
the magnitude of health
inequities and what
contributes to them
Bulletin of the World Health Organization | October 2007, 85 (10)
How about this?
 Equity, involves trying to understand and give
people what they need to enjoy full, healthy lives.

 Equality, aims to ensure that everyone gets the

same things in order to enjoy full, healthy lives.

# Equality equals quantity, whereas equity equals quality ???

Equity in health
Equity in health care
 Equal access to available care for equal need
 Equal utilization for equal need
 Equal quality of care for all