Health Equity

Office of Health Equity - Vision and Mission

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.

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.

The social determinants of health are factors that can influence your health and health behaviors. These factors have a big impact on health and are changed through policy, programs and power. View the Office of Health Equity Social Determinants of Health graphic (printable PDF), available in English, español (Spanish), العربية (Arabic), বাংলা (Bengali), বাংলা (Burmese), Kiswahili (Swahili).

Glossary (key terms) of working definitions and terms, from the National Association of Counties (NACo)

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Publications

The ECOHE creates publications that address the social determinants of health and other important public health topics. Each topic is listed below. The content is available in many languages, using the translation widget at the bottom of the page. Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Spanish, and Swahili PDFs are available for download. Community based organizations can request paper copies of these publications to distribute using the form linked below.

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