Thread by @sridhartweet, so there's going to be a COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force'health equity' [...]

so there's going to be a COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force

'health equity' started as philosophical debates in late 1990s. then some books, a journal, and now its everywhere.

it started with-we don't want health equality or leveling down to equality so
. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/21/executive-order-ensuring-an-equitable-pandemic-response-and-recovery/

Executive Order on Ensuring an Equitable Pandemic Response and Recovery | The White House

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to address the disproportionate and severe impact of coronavirus disease 2019...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/21/executive-order-ensuring-an-equitable-pandemic-response-and-recovery/

Core readings - #healthequity 1/n

Why health equity? by Amartya Sen
HEALTH ECONOMICS
Health Econ. 11: 659–666 (2002)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/hec.762

Core readings - #healthequity 2/n

Equity and equality in health and health care
Culyer AJ, Wagstaff A. .
J Health Econ 1993; 12: 431–457

. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/016762969390004X

Equity and equality in health and health care

This paper explores four definitions of equity in health care: equality of utilization, distribution according to need, equality of access, and equali…

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/016762969390004X

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lots of people (i.e. Americans) use health equity as umbrella term to cover anything re inequalities and/in health - they discuss facts and experiences of health inequalities.

prime example is this good wikipedia entry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_equity

The thing about the US is that when it does something other countries follow. So health equity task force could be important.

prob is the US health equity discussion is so overwhelmed by health impacts of racism, that people think it is the same thing.
. https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2018-09-25/health-equity-not-just-about-race-its-also-about-place

Health Equity Isn't Just About Race. It’s Also About Place.

A new analysis from U.S. News shows that where some minorities live puts them on unequal footing when it comes to their health.

https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2018-09-25/health-equity-not-just-about-race-its-also-about-place

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i think this is another important one

The concern for equity in health
by Sudhir Anand
Journal of Epi & Community Health

. https://jech.bmj.com/content/56/7/485

The concern for equity in health

This issue of the journal contains papers presented to the first meeting of the International Society for Equity in Health, Havana, Cuba, June 2000.

https://jech.bmj.com/content/56/7/485

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In this issue we mark the coming of age of work on equity and health with the publication of a set of papers from the first meeting of the International Society for Equity in Health held in Havana, Cuba in June 2000 https://jech.bmj.com/content/56/7/481.1

WORK ON EQUITY AND HEALTH COMES OF AGE

In this issue we mark the coming of age of work on equity and health with the publication of a set of papers from the first meeting of the International Society for Equity in Health held in Havana,...

https://jech.bmj.com/content/56/7/481.1

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The meaning and goals of equity in health
W-C Chang
J Epi & community health

check out the refs on this one. especially good. https://jech.bmj.com/content/56/7/488

The meaning and goals of equity in health

The meaning and implications of “equity in health” are discussed. A conceptual framework is proposed to delineate the roles of empirical and normative research in determining when inequalities in...

https://jech.bmj.com/content/56/7/488

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Measuring Health Inequity: A Public Health Ethics Inquiry

Yukiko Asada
The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Ethics

open access - download it. great overview.

. https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190245191.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190245191-e-23

Measuring Health Inequity: A Public Health Ethics Inquiry

"Measuring Health Inequity: A Public Health Ethics Inquiry" published on by Oxford University Press.

https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190245191.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190245191-e-23

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from Canada March 2020 -

ETHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF HEALTH EQUITY:
A CURATED LIST
by Natl Collab Centre for determinants of health

look at btm of page for even more resources.

.
https://nccdh.ca/resources/entry/ethical-foundations-of-health-equity-a-curated-list

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so while this list and US task force is about domestic health equity, the real problem is achieving global health equity

USA first will not change with Biden-Harris.

one of first books on Global Health Equity & Justice

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt3fgrbc

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