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They have poorer housing, less access to transportation, and less income for prescriptions and healthy food. Low-income people have greater prevalence of chronic illness and fewer resources to manage them. Fostering innovation and development of integrated community-based care can be critical to reducing disparities. Primary health care has strong potential for reducing health disparities. Addressing inequity benefits current and future generations. Without an explicit focus on reduction of disparity and correction of systemic inequities, the opportunities to promote or restore health and well-being can be lost. Risk factors include smoking, adverse childhood experiences, exposure to violence, and alcohol and drug misuse. Protective factors include access to a healthy diet, physical activity, education, stable employment, a stable support network, and quality housing. Discriminatory practices are often embedded into institutional and systems processes, resulting in underrepresentation in decision-making at all levels and underservice.Ī person’s physical and mental health and well-being are influenced by social, economic, and environmental factors, which can cluster in populations. Living conditions are often made worse by discrimination, stereotyping, and prejudice. Some of the areas with better outcomes have more services, more green space, and more transit there may be attribution to specific policies and social factors that are remediable. While Vancouver is one of the healthiest cities in the world, life expectancy between neighborhoods just 5 km apart can vary by as much as 9.5 years some neighborhoods have mortality rates 17 times higher than others.

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Health equity is defined by the World Health Organization as “the absence of avoidable or remediable differences among groups of people.” It is achieved when everyone can attain their full health potential and no one is disadvantaged because of social position or other socially determined circumstances. Now there is an imperative to advance health system improvement beyond the quadruple aim to the quintuple aim, with simultaneous advancement of health equity, purposefully focusing on individuals and communities who need improvement and innovation the most.

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The triple aim was expanded to the quadruple aim in recognition of the growing challenge of burnout (i.e., exhaustion, cynicism, and professional dissatisfaction) among physicians and the health care workforce. Since 2008, the triple aim framework has supported health care improvement through the simultaneous pursuit of three goals-improving population health, enhancing the care experience, and reducing costs-to optimize health system performance.

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