Population Health Equity

An equity motivated indicator of population health

Building Multisectoral Partnerships for Population Health and Health Equity

Poor performance in achieving population health goals is well-noted - approximately 10% of public health measures tracked are met. Less well-understood is how to create conditions that produce these goals. This article examines some of the factors that contribute to this poor performance, such as lack of shared responsibility for outcomes, lack of cooperation and collaboration, and limited unde...

Equity and population health: toward a broader bioethics agenda.

Bioethics' traditional focus on clinical relationships and exotic technologies has led the field away from population health, health disparities, and issues of justice. The result: a myopic view that misses the institutional context in which clinical relationships operate and can overlook factors that affect health more broadly than do exotic technologies. A broader bioethics agenda would take ...

Normative Foundations for Equity-Sensitive Population Health Evaluation Functions

Standard models for the evaluation of population health, such as the so-called models of aggregate Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs), or aggregate Healthy Years Equivalent (HYEs), are usually criticized on equity grounds. We provide in this paper normative justifications for alternative equitysensitive models, such as the so-called models of multiplicative QALYs, multiplicative HYEs, and gene...

Population Health Equity: Rate and Burden, Race and Class.

The recent reports of deaths from police officer shootings have brought the simple but not-often-discussed statistical concepts of rate and burden to national attention. The rate or relative proportion of police shootings resulting in deaths of unarmed black individuals is approximately 5 times higher than the rate among unarmed white individuals. But the absolute number of such deaths among wh...