Table 1.

Definitions of key terms

Term	Definition
Health	A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity [7]
Health equity	The absence of systematic disparities in health, mental health, or factors that shape health that are systemic and avoidable and, therefore, considered unjust or unfair [8]
Determinants of health	Conditions in which people live that impact opportunities to be healthy, including factors such as economic circumstances, housing, transportation, access to health-promoting resources, social norms, and social and environmental stressors [2, 5, 9, 10]
Determinants of health equity	Structural drivers of disparities in these conditions of daily life, such as relationships between communities and institutions, as well as the social, political, and economic systems and the unequal distribution of power, money, and resources that results from these systems [2, 5, 9, 10]
Health Impact Assessment (HIA)	A systematic process that uses an array of data sources and analytic methods and considers input from stakeholders to determine the potential effects of a proposed policy, plan, program, or project on the health of a population and the distribution of those effects within the population. HIA provides recommendations on monitoring and managing those effects [11]