Inequality
Inequality (Medicine)
Inequality (pronounced as /ɪnɪˈkwɒlɪti/) in the context of medicine refers to the uneven distribution of health resources, health status, or health determinants between different population groups.
Etymology
The term 'inequality' is derived from the Latin word 'inequalitas', which means 'not equal'. In the medical context, it was first used in the late 20th century to describe disparities in health outcomes among different social, economic, and demographic groups.
Related Terms
- Health Disparity: Refers to differences in health outcomes and their determinants between segments of the population, as defined by social, demographic, environmental, and geographic attributes.
- Social Determinants of Health: These are conditions in the environments in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.
- Health Equity: Refers to the absence of avoidable or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically.
- Healthcare Access: Refers to the ease with which an individual can obtain needed medical services.
- Socioeconomic Status: An economic and sociological combined total measure of a person's work experience and of an individual's or family's economic and social position in relation to others.
See Also
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Inequality
- Wikipedia's article - Inequality
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