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Health Equity: The Role of Research in Addressing Health Disparities
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What is health equity?
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The absence of avoidable or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically.
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Health equity is the absence of avoidable or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically. It is a broader concept than health equality, which refers to the absence of differences in health outcomes among groups of people.