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Health equity is the availability of opportunity to be as healthy as possible. Differences in health outcomes or health care and their causes among groups of people are called health disparities.
Health disparities are differences in health outcomes and their causes among groups of people. Reducing health disparities is a major goal of public health. Achieving health equity, eliminating disparities, and improving the health of all U.S. population groups is one of the goals of public health. Social factors that influence health care and health outcomes are called social determinants. These are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age. According to the World Health Organization these circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels. The unfair and avoidable differences in health status seen within populations and between countries are called health inequities. The social determinants of health are mostly responsible for health inequities.
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Group Discussion
Discuss how a number of sociodemographic and environmental factors outlined below impact health and educational outcome in the young child
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