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This Equity Gauge represents a partnership between legislators and the Health Systems Trust. It is designed to support national and provincial legislators in their policy monitoring role and specifically in monitoring the move towards equity in health and health care.
Although there has been considerable progress towards equity since the first democratic elections in 1994, the picture painted in the Gauge is still bleak. Whilst the homelands no longer exist in any formal sense, their legacy remains, impacting harshly upon the lives of those who live in these areas. Whether equity in health and health care is measured by health status, by province, by race, or according to the urban/rural divide, it is almost exclusively, poor African people, whose lives are most impoverished by inequity in South Africa.
The Gauge will be regularly revised. This will allow it to be updated and findings from new research to be incorporated. It will also enable progress and changes to be traced over time. |
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What is Equity?
Equity has a number of different meanings. The Equity Gauge is based on the following broad meaning: Equity means fair shares and fair opportunities in the distribution and access of resources and provision of services.
Equity is different to equal shares or equal opportunities. Equity means that greater resources and more services should be made available to the most vulnerable and needy groups in society. For example, equal shares would mean every district having the same amount of money to spend on each person. In contrast, equity would mean that districts with the most vulnerable populations and worst facilities receive more money than better off districts.
Equity is a measure that compares one group with another. For example rich with poor, black with white, rural with urban and women with men. The long term goal of promoting equity is to improve the health of the most vulnerable groups.
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