This white paper explores the complex issue of health equity, highlighting the significant challenges in defining and achieving it, such as affordability, access, ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, and geography. It contrasts health equality, where everyone has equal access to care, with health equity, which accounts for individual circumstances and aims to eliminate social and economic barriers. Challenges include organizations' struggles to define and measure health equity, unclear roles and responsibilities, public mistrust, lack of representative data, and insufficient data and care integration.

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