Creating
Healthy Societies through Inclusion and Equity – Call for
papers
Website: http://www.iseqh.org/
The
International Society for Equity in Health, ISEqH, welcomes those interested in
promoting equity in health to share experience and expertise at its Fourth
International Conference in
Submission of
Abstracts until
The
event will be held on
Conference
Sub themes
Two new
topics, to encourage the presentation and discussion of research and evaluation
on the achievement of equity:
1.aboriginal
health, acknowledging the need to address the inequities experienced by many
indigenous communities; and
2. arts
and equity in health, exploring ways to evaluate how working through the arts
improves social inclusion and enhances equity in
health
Equity
in health: The absence of
systematic and potentially remediable differences in one or more aspects of
health across populations or population groups defined socially, economically,
demographically, or geographically.
Inequity
in health: Systematic and
potentially remediable differences in one or more aspects of health across
populations or population groups defined socially, economically,
demographically, or geographically.
Equity
(policy and actions): Active
policy decisions and programmatic actions directed at improving equity in health
or in reducing or eliminating inequalities in
health.
Equity
(research): Research to
elucidate the genesis and characteristics of inequity in health for the purpose
of identifying factors amenable to policy decisions and programmatic actions to
reduce or eliminate inequities.
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