Healthcare equity means every patient can access quality care and receives equitable treatment.
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Health justice
Health justice aims to dismantle barriers to healthcare and improve outcomes for all communities. Health justice recognizes and takes into account existing health inequities and focuses on those affected most by it.
Health disparities
The differences in health among different communities.
Health inequities
Because of systematic mistreatment, certain groups experience less access to quality healthcare and poorer treatment. These differences are known as healthcare inequities.
Health equity
Health equity means every patient, regardless of background or income, has equal opportunity to achieve their best health.
Racialized medicine
Racialized medicine is the practice and belief by the scientific and medical community that a biological notion of race is important for understanding and treating health conditions. The practice diverts attentions and resources away from social determinants of health that cause gaps in health between different racial groups.
Race
Race is an inaccurate social and political idea about why groups of people look and act differently that was created without a modern scientific understanding of why people look or act differently.
Ethnicity
Ethnicity is a social group a person belongs to, and either identifies with or is identified with by others, as a result of a mix of cultural and other factors including language, diet, religion, ancestry and physical features traditionally associated with race.
Culture
Culture refers to a way of life of a (very small to very large) group of people–the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next.
Oppression
Oppression is the systemic unjust treatment of people based on their identities rooted in historical power structures.
