Health inequities exist among groups based on gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, education, income, disability, and geographic location. A new historic strategic plan's central challenge is to mobilize leadership to achieve health equity. Its four objectives are:
- Fostering societal understanding and the will to achieve health equity.
- Leveraging and engaging broad public/private partners in health equity solutions.
- Increasing and directing funding to achieve health equity.
- Strengthening organizational effectiveness to support health equity.
A crosscutting strategy will address the root causes of health inequities as well as measurement and evaluation.
Health Equity Strategic Map