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What are Health Disparities and Health Equity? We Need to Be Clear

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Braveman, Paula·2014·Public Health Reports®
DOI 10.1177/00333549141291s203PMC PMC3863701
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“Health disparities” and “health equity” have become increasingly familiar terms in public health, but rarely are they defined explicitly. Ambiguity in the definitions of these terms could lead to misdirection of resources . This article discusses the need for greater clarity about the concepts of health disparities and health equity, proposes definitions, and explains the rationale based on principles from the fields of ethics and human rights.

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  • The 100% care-gap closure rate by autonomous AI in this racially and ethnically diverse pediatric population could have the potential to reduce health disparities for vision loss from diabetes, furthering health equity.

    “However, the 100% care-gap closure rate by autonomous AI in this racially and ethnically diverse pediatric population could have the potential to reduce health disparities for vision loss from diabetes, furthering health equity, and deserves further study42,43.”

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    The passage defining health equity and health disparities says that reducing disparities is evidence of progress toward health equity. It does not address autonomous AI, a 100% care-gap closure rate, or whether that intervention could reduce disparities in diabetes-related vision loss among children. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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Authors
Braveman, P.
Affiliations
University of California, San Francisco (US)
Corresponding author
Braveman, Paula
ORCID
Braveman, Paula
Venue
Public Health Reports®
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2014-01
Volume
129
Issue
1_suppl2
Pages
5-8
ISSN
  • 0033-3549 (ISSN-L)
  • 1468-2877
DOI
10.1177/00333549141291s203
PMC
PMC3863701
OpenAlex
W21514708
Cited by
860
References
2
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FWCI
29.70
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Public Health Reports (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Health › Public Health and Social Inequalities
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Public Health Policies and Education
  • Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
Keywords
health disparities, health equity, definitions, conceptual clarity, ethics, human rights, resource allocation
MeSH terms
Health Status, Humans, Human Rights, Terminology as Topic, United States, Vulnerable Populations, Health Status Disparities, Social Determinants of Health

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