WINTER 2005, Volume 4 Issue 1
Health Equity and Public Health Practice

http://archive.naccho.org/Documents/naccho_Exchange_Winter-05.pdf

Including:

Advancing health equity in local public health practice using PACE EH

The unchecked and growing socio-economic chasm in the United States is
having detrimental repercussions in population health. Health inequities,
defined as unfair systemic and avoidable disparities in population health
and mortality, are increasing.1 Social and economic inequalities play a
major role in the inequitable distribution of disease.2 Low income,
poverty, and segregation, have been causally linked to poorer health.3 And,
economic inequality in the U.S. is greater than in any other industrialized
country in the world and continues to deteriorate.4

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