Pursuing Equity
What is health equity?
There are many inequities and inequalities within and between the communities we serve across ELFT which have been further exacerbated during the pandemic. Equity is defined as the
“Absence of unfair, avoidable or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically or by other dimensions of inequality”
Supporting teams to Pursue Equity
In response to the trust strategy to improve quality of life for all we serve, the trust has launched a QI programme on Pursuing Equity. The programme has been designed in partnership with colleagues from public health, people participation, the trust’s networks and the QI department and began in April 2022
The programme is bringing teams together from across the trust to use QI to tackle and aspect of equity in their area of work.
Below you will find a collection of helpful resources around equity to guide your improvement work and learning from the equity programme.
Conducting Health Equity Data Analysis
There is a lot of data available to help you understand inequities in the communities your serve. However sometimes it’s difficult to know where to start with this. This guide is intended to provide a brief overview to support the use of data in understanding equities. It covers
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- What data to use to help you understand inequities in your population
- Where you can access that data
- How to analyse it to move to meaningful action
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Using rising tides to lift all boats Equity-focused quality improvement as a tool to reduce neonatal health disparities
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All Quality Improvement Is Health Equity Work Designing Improvement to Reduce Disparities
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Tackling the wider social determinants of health and health inequalities evidence from systematic reviews
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