HERE4Justice Glossary

Disparities: "Health disparities are health differences between different groups of people." (MedlinePlus 2021)

Health inequality: "are the unjust and avoidable differences in people’s health across the population and between specific population groups." (Public Health Scotland 2021)

Health inequity: "are systematic differences in the opportunities groups have to achieve optimal health, leading to unfair and avoidable differences in health outcomes." (Bravemen 2006).

Social justice: “the view that everyone deserves equal rights and opportunities —this includes the right to good health.” (APHA 2021) 

Racism: "Racism is a system of structuring opportunity and assigning value based on the social interpretation of how one looks (which is what we call "race"), that unfairly disadvantages some individuals and communities, unfairly advantages other individuals and communities, and saps the strength of the whole society through the waste of human resources." (Camara Phyllis Jones 2021)