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To improve health equity for children, Mi-CHIME is designed to examine and address variation in health care for different populations. Health inequity as a term is used in different ways by different people. To better understand how Mi-CHIME defines health inequity, please review our following definitions ...
To improve health equity for children, Mi-CHIME is designed to examine and address variation in health care for different populations. Health inequity as a term is used in different ways by different people. To better understand how Mi-CHIME defines health inequity, please review our following definitions ...
Health inequities:
Health inequities:
The obvious goal is to provide the best possible care to all children, and yet we know there is variation in the quality of that care. Children who differ in some characteristics may enter the hospital or doctor’s office and be responded to differently due to one or more of those characteristics. In other words, these children may experience a health inequity.
The obvious goal is to provide the best possible care to all children, and yet we know there is variation in the quality of that care. Children who differ in some characteristics may enter the hospital or doctor’s office and be responded to differently due to one or more of those characteristics. In other words, these children may experience a health inequity.
Examples:
Do children in wheelchairs receive the same physical exams as other children?
Do providers assess pain differently in girls versus boys?
Do children with kidney failure from low-income families wait longer for a transplant than those from families with higher incomes?
Health inequities are generally inside the control of health-care systems or individual providers. Health inequity as a term is sometimes used interchangeably with health disparity, but at Mi-CHIME we treat these terms as distinct.
Health disparities:
Health disparities:
Differences in outcomes that are associated with one or more social determinant of health. While undeniably important, health disparities are generally outside of the immediate control of health-care systems or individual providers and thus generally outside of the scope of the work conducted by Mi-CHIME.
Differences in outcomes that are associated with one or more social determinant of health. While undeniably important, health disparities are generally outside of the immediate control of health-care systems or individual providers and thus generally outside of the scope of the work conducted by Mi-CHIME.
Examples:
Children living near factories experience more respiratory illnesses and poorer lung function than children living outside of those areas due to exposure to damaging particulates.
Children from low-income and/or rural communities are less likely to access specialty care and attend routine appointments because of transportation challenges.
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