Advancing Health Equity

Goal: To improve health equity and reduce health disparities among racial, ethnic and linguistic minorities in New Hampshire. Investment to Date: $6,042,821 Number of grants to date: 150

Overview:

Achieving a fair opportunity for health for all of New Hampshire’s people requires understanding the causes of health disparities and collectively acting to advance health equity.  Simply put, health equity is achieving the highest level of health possible for all people.  A person’s health is determined by many things including their income, neighborhood, education, family, and access to care.  People can only make healthy choices if they have healthy options.  And more, people need to live in places that support a healthy choice.   Personal factors like age, race, ethnicity, language, gender, sexual preference, or disability can make some groups more vulnerable to poor health than others.  Data shows racial, ethnic and language minorities experience higher rates of death from preventable illnesses.  The population of minorities is growing in New Hampshire.  By reducing health inequity for minorities, we will improve overall community health.  Advancing health equity requires addressing key policy and program decisions to undo systematic disadvantage for racial, ethnic and linguistic minorities. 

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