Chang Wei-Ching
Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
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Int J Equity Health. 2025 Jun 20;24(1):183. doi: 10.1186/s12939-025-02536-w.
'Equity in health' means health for all, given our potentials and limitations. Its goal is to help each and every one of us achieve his/her optimal health by providing needed personal, social and environmental support.To promote health equity, both systematic and random variations in health status must be considered. There are numerous barriers to health equity, including the deep-rooted and dominant cultures of neoliberalism, nationalism, personal and political callousness, and technological imperative, which are responsible for widespread health inequities today. Proper conceptual frameworks are required to work towards health equity, including doughnut economics, planetary health, universal basic income, peaceful dispute resolution, an open-world strategy, and a global compassionate and cooperative culture. It is our moral obligation to be respectful and generous to others and work together cooperatively to refine, operationalize, and implement such conceptual frameworks to make the world a better place in support of global health equity.
“健康公平”意味着鉴于我们的潜力和局限,让所有人享有健康。其目标是通过提供所需的个人、社会和环境支持,帮助我们每个人实现自身的最佳健康状态。为促进健康公平,必须考虑健康状况的系统性和随机性差异。健康公平存在诸多障碍,包括新自由主义、民族主义、个人和政治冷漠以及技术至上等根深蒂固且占主导地位的文化,这些导致了当今广泛存在的健康不平等现象。实现健康公平需要适当的概念框架,包括甜甜圈经济学、地球健康、普遍基本收入、和平争端解决、开放世界战略以及全球富有同情心和合作精神的文化。尊重他人、慷慨待人并共同合作,完善、实施此类概念框架,以使世界变得更美好,支持全球健康公平,是我们的道德义务。