Table 1.

Select definitions of health equity and health inequities

Term	Definition
Health equity [20]	Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. This requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, powerlessness, and their consequences – including lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, safe environments, and quality education, housing, and healthcare. […] For the purposes of measurement, health equity means reducing and ultimately eliminating disparities in health and its determinants that adversely affect excluded or marginalized groups.
Health inequities [21]	The term ‘inequity’ has a moral and ethical dimension. It refers to differences which are unnecessary and avoidable, but in addition are considered unfair and unjust.