§ 37-2 — Definitions

Sec. 37-2. - Definitions.

The following words and phrases, whenever used in this chapter, shall have the meanings defined in this section: Health equity means the attainment of the highest level of health for all people. Achieving health equity requires valuing everyone equally with focused and ongoing societal efforts to address avoidable inequalities, historical and contemporary injustices, and the elimination of health and healthcare disparities. Health in all policies means a collaborative approach to improving the health of all people by incorporating health, sustainability, and equity considerations into decision-making across sectors and policy areas. Health inequities means differences in health associated with individual or group specific attributes (e.g. income, education, or race/ethnicity) that are connected to social disadvantage, historical, and contemporary injustices, and which can be minimized through changes to policy, programs, and practices. Social determinants of health means those conditions in the environments in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age.

(Ord. No. 230189, § 1, 4-6-23)