PEACH to hold seminar on May 13
Examples:
Do children in wheelchairs receive the same physical exams as other children?
Do providers assess pain differently in girls versus boys?
Do children with kidney failure from low-income families wait longer for a transplant than those from families with higher incomes?
Health inequities are generally inside the control of health-care systems or individual providers. Health inequity as a term is sometimes used interchangeably with health disparity, but at PEACH we treat these terms as distinct.
Examples:
Children living near factories experience more respiratory illnesses and poorer lung function than children living outside of those areas due to exposure to damaging particulates.
Children from low-income and/or rural communities are less likely to access specialty care and attend routine appointments because of transportation challenges.