Health Equity Law

At a glance

The Public Health Law Program's (PHLP's) Health Equity portfolio includes research on antidiscrimination laws, as well as research on public health law's impact on the social determinants of health. The resources below provide more information about health equity as it relates to law.

Resources

Health equity is the "attainment of the highest level of health for all people.1 Health equity can be achieved only by eliminating health disparities—the preventable differences in the health of one group over another as the result of factors such as race, sexual orientation, sex, disability, age, socioeconomic status, or geographic location. Law is a valuable tool to help achieve health equity.

Law and the Social Determinants of Health—Education, Housing, Environment, Economics

  • Health in All Policies (HiAP)
    • American Public Health Association, November 2015
  • Housing
  • Education as a Social Determinant of Health: The Role of Laws and Policies
    • Webinar: , September 2019
  • Environment and Health
    • Webinar: , May 15, 2018
    • Webinar: American Public Health Association, April 5, 2016

Antidiscrimination Law

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Other Partners' Resources

    • ChangeLab Solutions
    • Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
    • The Community Guide
    • National Association of County and City Health Officials
    • American Public Health Association
    • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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Content Source:
Public Health Infrastructure Center; Public Health Law
  • 1. US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health. . Chapter 1: Introduction.