Engage with diverse community partners through place-based conversations. Cultivate opportunities to address unmet needs and improve outcomes for health equity across the state.
Health Equity stands for the principle that all people have fair/just access to resources and conditions for health and well-being. Equity assures just and fair inclusion into a society in which all people can participate, prosper, and reach their full potential. Health equity is the goal that motivates actions to eliminate disparities in health between groups of people who are economically or socially worse-off and their better-off counterparts including:
racial/ethnic or socioeconomic groups
disability status
sexual orientation & gender identity
citizenship
rural/frontier
Equity recognizes unfair and avoidable conditions, with deep understanding of the historical context of oppression, power suppression, and intergenerational impacts on communities. Equity calls for actions that ensure systematic fair treatment of people of all races, resulting in opportunities and outcomes for all people. A Health Equity approach includes Black, Indigenous, Latinx and other People of Color lives as a model for change and collaborative actions that challenge structural racism and other intersecting oppressive systems.
