HSCI 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Health Equity, Macroeconomics

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Less absence from work due to illness and ability to continue earnings. Ill health undermines economic development and efforts to reduce poverty. Investments in health are essential for economic growth and should be a key component of national development. A few diseases and conditions account for most of avoidable deaths in low and middle income countries. Scale up access to existing interventions against diseases (ex. Inequity: difference in health that are not only unnecessary and avoidable but also unfair and unjust. Health equity: absence of unfair and avoidable differences in health among social groups. Health inequality: differences between health between different individuals (individual differences) Access to and coverage of health services. Responsiveness to the needs of the people/protection of from health related financial risks. Extent to which financing of health systems and distributions of health benefits is fair. Enormous variance in basic indicators of health across countries. Largely, but not completely varies by income.

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