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- To achieve health equity, governments can use a variety of tools, including civil rights legislation and constitutional jurisprudence. In the United States, 2 such examples are the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution’s Equal Protection clause and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
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For example, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) generally preempts state laws related to employer-sponsored health plans. Below is a selection of Supreme Court cases involving health care, arranged from newest to oldest.
Federal civil rights laws have been the subject of wider analyses as a determinant of health as well as a tool to address health disparities. 6 The research on state civil rights laws, while more limited, is growing. 7 This article will highlight how some states are using civil rights laws to combat discrimination against populations previously ...
- Dawn Pepin, Samantha Bent Weber
- 2019
Jul 23, 2013 · Your Civil Rights to Health Care. Your Rights Under Title VI of the Civil Right. What Is Title VI? Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects persons from discrimination based on their race, color, or national origin in programs and activities that receive Federal financial assistance.
Pervasive Inequality in the Health Care System Sustains Discrimination and Poor Health Outcomes Civil Rights. Our lawyers and policy analysts stand up for the civil rights of the millions of people who struggle to access affordable, quality health care. The National Health Law Program integrates civil rights into all of our substantive work ...
- What Is Health Equity?
- Legislative Action on Civil Rights
- Courts’ Roles
- Conclusion
Health equity has been widely defined as an “absence of socially unjust or unfair health disparities.”1 Equity is different than equality. While both equity and equality focus on notions of fairness, equality emphasizes giving people “the same resources or opportunities” while equity “recognizes that each person has different circumstances and allo...
Either by acting “as a provider or guarantor of human rights” or by implementing “policy frameworks that provide the basis for equitable health improvement,” governments can contribute to effectuating health equity.5 With respect to human rights, the United States has no formally codified right to health, nor does it participate in a human rights t...
With regard to the jurisprudence of US civil rights laws—particularly the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act—Flood and Gross argue that courts have an important role to play in implementing health equity by allowing a “properly framed right to health” to guide courts to better “scrutinize whether … [regressive health policy] ...
Sen explains that “health equity [is] central to the understanding of social justice.”3 Braveman et al echo the notion that seeking justice is central to a desire to achieve health equity, explaining “that the heart of a commitment to addressing health disparities is a commitment to achieving a more just society.”7 In an effort to achieve a more ju...
- Scott J Schweikart
- 2021
This review describes how civil rights laws, and their implementation and enforcement, help to encourage health in the United States, and it provides examples for peers around the world. The review uses a broad lens to define health for both classes of individuals and their communities—places where people live, learn, work, and play.
Apr 30, 2019 · Well designed laws can help build strong health systems, ensure safe and nutritious foods, evaluate and approve safe and effective drugs and vaccines, create healthier and safer workplaces, and improve the built and natural environments.
