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CHAPTER 2 HEALTH PROMOTION, EQUITY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Holly E. Jacobson, Francisco Soto Mas, and Laura L. Nervi
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Explain the intersection of health promotion, equity, and social justice.
Describe how health status and healthcare vary among individuals and groups of people within the same community.
Identify actions health promotion programs take to advance health equity and social justice.
Summarize how the Health in All Policies guideline created conditions to facilitate greater health equity and social justice.
Health Promotion, Equity, and Social Justice Intersection
Effective health promotion programs strive to promote health equity and social justice. 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, and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and housing, safe environments, and healthcare. Health equity means reducing and ultimately eliminating disparities in health and its determinants that adversely affect excluded or marginalized groups. Social justice is the view that everyone deserves equal rights and opportunities—this includes the right to good health. Yet today there are inequities in health that are avoidable, unnecessary, and unjust. These inequities are the result of policies and practices that create an unequal distribution
