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Medicus Mundi Switzerland Inequity is one of the strongest drivers of poor health within a population. Health equity resonates with the SDGs’ overarching principle of leaving no one behind and the implicit moral imperative of achieving social justice. Health inequities are systematic differences in the health status of different population groups related to, for example, poverty, disability, race, class and gender. These inequities have significant social and economic costs both to individuals and to population groups as a whole and are judged to be avoidable, unfair and unjust. (World Health Organisation: Health Equity)
Inequity hinders access to power, resources and funding and thus makes it difficult to build a healthy population within a country or region. Improving equity within the health sector, as well as in those sectors influencing health outcomes, remains a challenge both within international health cooperation and on the political level. Achieving health equity requires communities to work together to change policies and practices in order to create access, resources and opportunities that contribute to the overall health and wellbeing of ALL people. It requires addressing not only epidemiological and demographic issues related to equity but also assessing policies, institutions, politics and power.
The 2019 MMS Symposium is focusing on the following elements:
Equity is the absence of avoidable, unfair or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically, geographically or by other means of stratification. “Health equity” or “equity in health” implies that ideally everyone should have a fair opportunity to attain their full health potential and that no one should be disadvantaged from achieving this potential. (World Health Organisation: Health Equity)
6 November 2019; 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Pullman Hotel, Basel
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Carine Weiss, Netzwork Medicus Mundi Switzerland
Phone: +41 (0)61 383 18 12
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