How to assess or measure health inequity?
Health inequity has been always ongoing debate. There are many aspects of health inequities. The most influential trigger on health regarding equities is social exclusion, marginalization, discrimination, and disadvantage. The excluded or marginalized groups are groups who have often suffered discrimination and who have been excluded or marginalized from society usually such groups do not have access to health-promoting resources and economically and socially disadvantaged. There are many aspects to measure health inequity. These aspects can be measured by different ways for instance by;
The indicators of wealth
Income
Financial assets
Influence
Social acceptance
The size of your social network
By the educational attainment
Displacement from ancestral lands
By lynching
Denial of voting
Marriage
Isolation
Discriminatory practices in housing
Bank lending
By criminal justice
By the representation in high executive, political, and professional positions
Documented historical evidence of discrimination or slavery
