Title: Equity vs. Equality: What’s the Difference? | Online Public Health
Headings: Equity vs. Equality: What’s the Difference?
Equity vs. Equality: What’s the Difference?
The Difference Between Equity and Equality
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Project Brotherhood
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Project BRAVE: Building and Revitalizing an Anti-Violence Environment
Using Equity and Equality in Public Health Practice
Additional Resources about Equity and Equality

Content: Program effectiveness was reflected in follow-up surveys that showed “significant improvements in social support, self-rated health and mental health among community members that participated in the interventions with community health workers who use popular education.” Project BRAVE: Building and Revitalizing an Anti-Violence Environment
Project BRAVE
External link: open_in_new is a school-based intervention that builds on existing relationships among schools, community members, community-based organizations and local researchers. In doing so, Project BRAVE supports preexisting opportunities for students to share their experiences with violence and to take part in community change to reduce it. The program’s effectiveness was evidenced by an increase in school attendance, which is an important social determinant of community health. Using Equity and Equality in Public Health Practice
Understanding the difference between equity and equality is a key component in the effort to reduce health disparities among vulnerable populations. The good news is that public health officials can take specific steps to help address this confusion in their own communities — including using educational resources such as the CDC’s Defining and Measuring Disparities, Inequities, and Inequalities in the Healthy People Initiative (PDF, 391KB)
External link: open_in_new and group exercises such as those suggested by JustHealthAction (PDF, 637KB),
External link: open_in_new in which teams can work together to differentiate between equity and equality.