At a glance
- Everyone deserves a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. This is called health equity.
- Achieving health equity means addressing systemwide problems, unfair practices, and unjust conditions that have a negative impact on the health of specific groups.
Overview
In order to achieve health equity, we work to eliminate health disparities. Health disparities are differences in health outcomes that are closely linked with social, economic, and environmental factors, that affect population groups with low socioeconomic status (SES) defined by educational attainment, poverty, household income, and employment status. To improve health equity, we must consider the role of commercial tobacco.A
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People With Low Socioeconomic Status Experience a Health Burden From Commercial Tobacco
Health disparities are closely linked with social, economic, and/or environmental factors.
Unfair and unjust practices related to commercial tobacco harm people and drive health disparities.
People With Low Socioeconomic Status Need More Protection From Secondhand Smoke Exposure
Not everyone is equally protected by smokefree air policies which protect us from secondhand smoke.
People With Low Socioeconomic Status Encounter Barriers to Quitting Successfully
There are barriers to finding and using proven treatments that help people quit smoking.
Content Source:
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion; Office on Smoking and Health
- "Commercial tobacco" means harmful products that are made and sold by tobacco companies. It does not include "traditional tobacco" used by Indigenous groups for religious or ceremonial purposes.