Table 5 Sample excerpts of how health equity has been discussed

• “disparities in health and health care” [2]

• “resources for health” [2]

• “key aspects of nutrition and health equity: availability, accessibility, and acceptability” [2]

• “equity issues in urban health and health impacts” [21]

• “inequities in the determinants, outcomes and consequences of [cardiovascular disease and

diabetes]” [22]

• “allocation of resources to prevention and control of [cardiovascular disease]” [22]

• “inequities in tobacco use” 35]

• “equity in access and financial protection for the poor” [22]

• “unfair differences, or inequities, in health opportunities and outcomes” [24]

• “health equity implies that everyone has a fair opportunity to attain their full health potential” [25]

• “health determinants and health outcomes” [25, 27]

• “good health and affordable access to the health care” [27]

• “health-care utilization” [27]

• “health risk exposure, health behaviours, access to health care and health outcomes” (36)

• “inequality or disadvantage they were born into, and by promoting equality of opportunity in employment and education” [27]

• “in access to quality curative services” [22]

• “fair access to public services and work towards universal health coverage” [28]

• “social determinants (ethnicity, gender, education, migration, trade, urbanization, demographic factors and poverty)” [22]

• “inequities in how society is organized” [2]

• “equity gap in the incidence or morbidity, mortality, candidacy for risk and access to effective treatment, or better, prevention” [22]