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Health Equity

Contact

Office of Health Equity 
95 Franklin Street 
Buffalo, NY 14202 
Phone: 716-858-2152
Email: healthequity@erie.gov

Office of Health Advisory Board

Advisory Board meeting minutes

Office of Health Equity - Vision and Mission

Vision: The Office of Health Equity’s vision is for all disadvantaged, marginalized, and diverse populations in Erie County, who presently experience higher rates of poor health outcomes, to achieve maximum health and wellness.

Mission: The Office of Health Equity’s mission is to evaluate a wide variety of specific health outcomes among diverse populations to fully understand the depth of health disparities in Erie County and to partner with community members, healthcare providers, faith and philanthropic leaders, and organizations to enact programs that help disadvantaged, marginalized, and diverse populations in Erie County achieve maximum health and wellness.

What Does Health Equity Mean?

Health Equity exists when all people have a fair and just opportunity to be healthy, especially those who have experienced socioeconomic disadvantage, historical injustice, and other avoidable systemic inequalities that are often associated with social categories of race, gender, ethnicity, social position, sexual orientation, and disability.

Key Terms and Definitions

Glossary of working definitions and terms National Association of Counties (NACo)

The Erie County Health Equity Act of 2021

Local law that established the Office of Health Equity

Health Equity Reports

Health Equity reports

Health Equity in the Media

Health Equity podcasts, videos and press releases

Programs

Resources

Newsletters and Subscribe to Updates

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