Healthy people constitute a healthy society. Everyone should have an equal opportunity to receive quality health care and through healthy equity, this can be achieved. Unfortunately for some people from different races, ethnicities, and socioeconomic group, they receive inequalities in health care and collectively these are known as health disparities.

So why study health disparities? Health disparities affect all of our lives and the right career choice can make a difference. It is time to change the way we work toward eliminating these inequalities. It is up to all of us to create a healthy community.

Health Equity: A fair opportunity to attain…full health potential and, more pragmatically, that no one should be disadvantage from achieving this potential, if it can be avoided.

M. Whitehead. The concepts an principles of equity ad health; Copenhagen:
World Health Organization Regional office for Europe, 1990 (EUR/ICP/RPD 414)

Health Disparities is an umbrella term that highlights. . .

• Disparities in Health: differences between two or more population groups in health outcomes and in the prevalence, incidence, of burden or disease, disability, injury, or death.
• Disparities in Health Care: differences between two or more population groups in health care access, coverage, and quality of care, including differences in preventive, diagnostic, and treatment services.

• Educate yourself, your family, and your community

• Raise awareness – understand the issues – be an advocate



• Appreciate difference – create change thru policy

• Ask questions – answers are in questions

• Be engaged – be a leader – be empowered

Click here for quick facts on health disparities.

This year we are unveiling a series of sessions to bring awareness to the disparities in health that effects students’ personal lives and the community. Our goal is to allow professionals the opportunity to connect with our students by discussing their career path and how they can assist with dissolving health disparities in the future careers that they choose. Specifically, the professionals will highlight the following:

• Explore college experience (What supports or barriers did you face? How did you decide on your career path?)
• Explore career (Where do you work? What do you do?)
• Explore how you address health disparities in your career
• Discus the importance of your role and how other public health professions support your clients/purpose

There will be four presentations during the series, each touching on specific types of careers impacting the health of our communities.
The careers that will be highlighted are:

For more information, Contact: Kendra Daniel (216) 687- 4704, k.daniel@csuohio.edu