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Federal Policy to Advance Racial, Ethnic, and Tribal Health Equity (2023) / Chapter Skim
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... Health equity is the state in which everyone has a fair opportunity to attain full health potential and well-being, and no one is disadvantaged from doing so because of social position or any other socially defined circumstance. Achieving health equity requires valuing everyone equally with focused and ongoing societal efforts to address avoidable inequalities and historical and contemporary injustices and eliminate health and health care disparities due to past and present causes.
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... Moreover, the committee identified key features of past and current policies that have served to reduce inequities to inform its recommendations to not only further reduce and eliminate inequities but also achieve equity, with a focus on policies and programs controlled or influenced by the executive and legislative branches of the federal government. Federal policy makers have worked on health equity issues in the past with significant progress; the goal of this report is to further that progress.
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... Some of the structural-level needs articulated in the recommendations will require broad societal-level change and long-term effort, as these are tied to accumulated inequities over generations that need to be unwound to achieve health equity. Both levels of action are required to make progress on eliminating -- versus only mitigating -- racial and ethnic health inequities.
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