Health equity is a significant global public health issue. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), health equality is the absence of avoidable or remediable differences in health and health care among groups of people, whether those are defined socially, economically, demographically or geographically. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) refers to health inequities (or more often, health disparities) as unfair health differences that are linked with social, economic or environmental disadvantages that adversely affect groups of individuals. Various types of health inequalities or disparities occurring in various stages of life have been reported in literature worldwide. Creating health equity is a priority of many countries and a core value of numerous national and international health organizations.

The Health Equity and Disparities Section of AIMS Public Health publishes editorials/commentaries, systematic reviews, original research and methodology articles that address one or more significant issues in health equity and disparities research and practice. The section is interested in publishing manuscripts addressing racial/ethnic, socioeconomic, demographic, linguistic and cultural, and/or geographic disparities in health, health behaviors, community social and built environments, and access to and quality of health care. Manuscripts may address patterns, determinants, processes, and potential remedies of health inequalities and disparities. The section is particularly interested in manuscripts that describe approaches to and report outcomes of population-based interventions to reduce health inequalities, and studies conducted in lower income, disadvantaged countries and communities.

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