What is Equity Oriented Health Care?
Health equity is not the same as equality in health.
Health equity is defined as the absence of avoidable or modifiable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically.
Health inequities are unjust and avoidable, and represent unacceptable differences in health between and within groups of people. Inequities are not only pervasive but increasing throughout Canada and globally. Patient - centered care is an important means of fostering patient participation in their own care, and respectful relationships between health care providers and their clients [3]. A health equity lens builds on patient - centered care by focusing attention on strategies that can “close the health equity gap” by paying particular attention to those at greatest risk of poor health.
In other words, health equity requires that we target care and financial support to people who have historically been and are the most marginalized in our society.
CREDITS
Script: Miriam Mortimer
VO: Alban Musaerenge
Illustration: Fernanda Ribeiro
Music: Playdate Audio
Direction and Animation: Kunal Sen
Produced by Good Bad Habits
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Illustrations by Fe Ribeiro
Where Else Am I Supposed To Go?
“I’ve lived with this pain for so long. I need help…”
This video was co-developed by the Community Addiction Peer Support Association, the Vancouver Community Action Team Anti-Stigma Working Group, Kílala Lelum Urban Indigenous Health and Healing Cooperative and the EQUIP Health Care Research team. The story you’re about to hear reflects a synthesis of many people’s lived and living experiences and shows the impact of substance use stigma in health care. This could be difficult for some people to watch.
The aim of this video is to learn and take guidance from people’s lived experiences as a step towards improving health care and social services.
CREDITS
Music: Playdate Audio
Design and Animation: Good Bad Habits