Health equity is giving everyone the same opportunity to the highest level of health care that meets their needs.
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Health equity is giving everyone the same opportunity to the highest level of health care that meets their needs.
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Equity vs. Equality
Highlights from the 2017 Health Disparities Report
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Highlights from the 2017 Health Disparities Report
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- Smoking was identified as a risk factor among 45.1 percent of those individuals that died from diseases of the heart.
- The American Indian population is disproportionately affected by diabetes-related deaths with a rate of 57.5 per 100,000 individuals compared to Whites at 24.8.
- 80.4 percent of suicides were among males.
- African Americans had the highest rate of chlamydia with a rate of 1,355.3 per 100,000 people.
