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What can health promotion and health education practitioners do to properly address health inequities? Since health inequities are the result of policies and practices that create unequal societies, we must propose interventions that assure everyone’s opportunity to attain their highest level of health. This can be achieved by addressing the social determinants of health and equity. In other words, we must pay attention to the roots causes of inequity. There is sufficient evidence on the role of macro social, political, and economic factors on the pathogenesis of disease, not only in individuals but also in entire populations. From this perspective, sensitive governmental actions can reduce health inequity by ensuring basic services such as education and healthcare. Government can also address social and health inequity by protecting and promoting human rights such as affordable housing, equal employment opportunities for all, gender equity, and minimum wages that allow workers to keep up with cost of living (Blas et al., 2008).