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  • Health Equity Research
  • Intervention Science

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  • Interventions can improve public health and reduce disparities.
  • Health equity requires equitable distribution of intervention benefits.
  • Current optimization methods may not prioritize equitability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce a principled approach to optimize interventions for health equity.
  • Define and operationalize intervention equitability within optimization frameworks.
  • Demonstrate how to balance equitability with other optimization criteria.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST) framework.
  • Defined intervention equitability as even distribution of health benefits.
  • Employed a hypothetical case study with simulated data.

Main Results:

  • MOST can be adapted to strategically balance effectiveness and equitability.
  • Considering equitability can alter the composition of optimized interventions.
  • Simulations showed distinct intervention profiles with and without equitability as a criterion.

Conclusions:

  • Optimizing interventions for equitability is feasible and essential for health equity.
  • Integrating equitability into optimization frameworks requires careful consideration of criteria.
  • Further research is needed to advance the optimization of interventions for health equity.