The Equity Project
The Equity Project is a joint initiative of the Royal College
of Paediatrics and Child Health and the American Academy of
Pediatrics. Members of both groups met for the first time in
September 2000 and established the following mission, strategy,
and goals.
Mission
To improve child health and reduce the gap in health disparities
among populations of children in the United States and United
Kingdom, in particular among children living in poverty and
other groups of marginalised children.
Strategy
To sustain and expand the commitment and activities of the
RCPCH and AAP to ensuring that equity of health outcomes remains
a fundamental tenet and task of the respective organisations.
Goals
- Education and Training
To ensure that all pediatricians and other providers of child
health services understand the issues and experience of marginalized
children and the health implications of inequity, and have
the capacity for resolving health disparities among all children.
- Practice and Advocacy
To enable paediatricians to establish equity in child health
and improve health outcomes of marginalised children through
service and child advocacy.
- Research and Public Policy
To advance the understanding of the genesis of health disparities
and to raise the national profile of the health implications
of inequity through research and the development of relevant
public policy.
- Children’s Rights
To implement a Children’s Rights paradigm as framework
and strategy for improving child health and reducing child
health disparities.
Resources
Through the Equity Project several resources have been and
are in the process of being developed.
Funding for this project has been generously awarded by Pfizer,
CommonWealth Fund and the US Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
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