With growing demands for a more equitable health system and changes to compliance requirements by federal agencies and accrediting bodies, attorneys must familiarize themselves with the principles of health equity to better counsel clients.

What Is Health Equity?

According to Robert Wood Johnson, “health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible.” This requires reducing and ultimately eliminating disparities in health and its determinants that adversely affect excluded or marginalized groups.