Health Equity Talk: Understandings of Health Equity among Health Leaders

AIMS Public Health
Bernadette PaulyMarjorie MacDonald

Abstract

Reducing health inequities is a stated goal of health systems worldwide. There is widespread commitment to health equity among public health leaders and calls for reorientation of health systems towards health equity. As part of the Equity Lens in Public Health (ELPH) program of research, public health decision makers and researchers in British Columbia collaborated to study the application of a health equity lens in a time of health system renewal. We drew on intersectionality, complexity and critical social justice theories to understand how participants construct health equity and apply a health equity lens as part of public health renewal. 15 focus groups and 16 individual semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 55 health system leaders. Data were analyzed using constant comparative analysis to explore how health equity was constructed in relation to understandings and actions. Four main themes were identified in terms of how health care leaders construct health equity and actions to reduce health inequities: (1) population health, (2) determinants of health, and (3) accessibility and (4) challenges of health equity talk. The first three aspects of health equity talk reflect different understandings of he...Continue Reading

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Feb 16, 2019·Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health·Dianne Oickle, Connie Clement
Jan 5, 2020·Annual Review of Public Health·Leandris C LiburdAna Penman-Aguilar
Apr 25, 2018·International Journal for Equity in Health·Bernadette PaulyMarjorie MacDonald
Mar 10, 2019·Canadian Journal of Public Health = Revue Canadienne De Santé Publique·Nicole AndruszkiewiczM Mustafa Hirji
Jun 13, 2019·BMC Public Health·Lori Baugh Littlejohns, Andrew Wilson
Sep 17, 2020·International Journal for Equity in Health·Thea van RoodeMarjorie MacDonald
Mar 20, 2019·JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports·Karen MacKinnonNathan Strayed
Mar 6, 2019·Health Research Policy and Systems·Katrina Marie Plamondon, Julia Pemberton
Jun 18, 2021·JBI Evidence Synthesis·Bruce WallaceBernadette Pauly
Nov 26, 2021·Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research : a Publication of Dietitians of Canada = Revue Canadienne De La Pratique Et De La Recherche En Diététique : Une Publication Des Diététistes Du Canada·Jennifer Brady, Tanya L'heureux

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