{"id":6334,"date":"2011-02-08T14:45:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T19:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/HealthequityisdeepintheDNAoftheWellesleyInstitute.Manyhealthstatisticsreportaveragesoveralargepopulation\u2013theentireCityofTorontooreventhewholecountryofCanada.Butaveragescanobscuretherealitythatcertaingroups(suchas"},"modified":"2021-05-20T09:44:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T13:44:23","slug":"what-is-health-equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellesleyinstitute.com\/health\/what-is-health-equity\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Health Equity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health equity is deep in the DNA of the Wellesley Institute. Many health statistics report averages over a large population \u2013 the entire City of Toronto or even the whole country of Canada. But averages can obscure the reality that certain groups (such as poor people, or recent immigrants, or Aboriginal people) bear the heaviest burden of poor health. In this video vignette, the Wellesley Institute\u2019s Director of Policy, Bob Gardner, offers a brief overview of health equity \u2013 and why it matters.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><object width=\"405\" height=\"245\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3n3Zt9aCuUc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"405\" height=\"245\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3n3Zt9aCuUc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health equity is deep in the DNA of the Wellesley Institute. Many health statistics report averages over a large population \u2013 the entire City of Toronto or even the whole country of Canada. But averages can obscure the reality that certain groups (such as poor people, or recent immigrants, or Aboriginal people) bear the heaviest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5132,"featured_media":10735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"tpgb_global_settings":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"coauthors":[693],"acf":[],"tpgb_featured_images":{"full":["https:\/\/www.wellesleyinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/what-is-health-equity.jpg",120,74,false],"tp-image-grid":["https:\/\/www.wellesleyinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/what-is-health-equity.jpg",120,74,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.wellesleyinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/what-is-health-equity.jpg",120,74,false],"medium":["https:\/\/www.wellesleyinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/what-is-health-equity.jpg",120,74,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.wellesleyinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/what-is-health-equity.jpg",120,74,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.wellesleyinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/what-is-health-equity.jpg",120,74,false],"default":"https:\/\/www.wellesleyinstitute.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/the-plus-addons-for-block-editor\/assets\/images\/tpgb-placeholder.jpg"},"tpgb_post_meta_info":{"get_date":"February 8, 2011","category_list":{"category":[{"term_id":198,"name":"Health systems and Health equity","slug":"health","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":204,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":743,"filter":"raw","custom_order":"9999","meta":[]}],"post_tag":false,"project":false},"author_name":"Wellesley Institute","author_url":"https:\/\/www.wellesleyinstitute.com\/author\/wellesley\/","author_email":"test@wellesleyinstitute.com","author_website":"","author_description":"","author_facebook":"","author_twitter":"","author_instagram":"","author_role":["contributor"],"author_firstname":"Wellesley","author_lastname":"Institute","user_login":"wellesley","author_avatar":"<img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.wellesleyinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wellesley.jpg' srcset='https:\/\/www.wellesleyinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wellesley.jpg 2x' class='avatar avatar-200 photo' height='200' width='200' loading='lazy' decoding='async'\/>","author_avatar_url":"https:\/\/www.wellesleyinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wellesley-150x150.jpg","comment_count":1,"post_likes":0,"post_views":0},"tpgb_post_category":{"category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellesleyinstitute.com\/category\/health\/\" alt=\"Health systems and Health equity\" class=\"category-health\">Health systems and Health equity<\/a> "},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellesleyinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellesleyinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellesleyinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellesleyinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellesleyinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellesleyinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27617,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellesleyinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334\/revisions\/27617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellesleyinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellesleyinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellesleyinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellesleyinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6334"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellesleyinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}