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A robust health equity metric.

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  • 1Department of Health Policy and Management, Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA, 650 Charles E Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772, USA.

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A new health equity metric was developed to measure disparities across all social exclusions. This metric allows for consistent comparisons and may accelerate progress toward health equity.

Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Health Equity Measurement
  • Social Determinants of Health

Background:

  • Achieving health equity necessitates a reliable and comprehensive metric.
  • Existing measures often fail to capture the full spectrum of social exclusion.
  • A novel approach is needed for meaningful comparisons across diverse populations and settings.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a new health equity metric.
  • To ensure the metric is calculable with available health data.
  • To enable comparisons across time, place, and all major forms of social exclusion.

Main Methods:

  • A cross-sectional study utilizing data from the 2017 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (n=287,602).
  • Calculated a 'Healthy Days' measure representing physical and mental well-being.
Keywords:
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    • Significant variation in the health equity metric across states and the District of Columbia.
    • District of Columbia (0.48), Minnesota (0.37), and Connecticut (0.30) demonstrated the highest health equity.
    • West Virginia (-0.26), Arkansas (-0.18), and Kentucky (-0.13) showed the lowest health equity.
    • The metric's value was not correlated with Black-White health disparities across states.

    Conclusions:

    • A single, objective health equity metric is feasible for consistent measurement.
    • This metric can facilitate more rapid advancements in achieving health equity.
    • The proposed measure offers a distinct and comprehensive approach to understanding health disparities.