Health Equity

1. Health equity means everyone has a ________ opportunity fo live a long healthy life
5. Healthy choices can only be made if people have ______ ________.
7. Health inequalities make some populations more ________ to poorer health outcomes than other groups
8. This accounts for 10-15% of preventable deaths.
9. This word describes the unfair differences between populations
10. This is a social construct not as a result of genetics that result in health disparities.
11. Housing, education, income, transport, access to food and employment are examples of _________ _________ of health.

2. This is a form of racism
3. Racism over a life time can increase what levels?
4. An area outside the health sector where solutios can be initiated to improve health equity
5. This is the difference in presence of disease, health outcomes and access to health between population groups.
6. We must encourage people to make _________ ________.
12. The equal distribution of a health resource is health ______, however this does not mean this is an equitable distribution.
13. An example of a root of racial and ethnic disparities
14. Health inequities are unnecessary and __________.