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Effective health promotion programs strive to promote health equity and social justice. Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. Social justice is the view that everyone deserves equal rights and opportunities—this includes the right to good health. Health status and healthcare vary among individuals and groups of people within the same community. Differences in health status among groups within a community are most often related to economic status, race and ethnicity, gender, education, disability, geographic location, or sexual orientation.

Health promotion programs and health education practitioners address health inequities through interventions that assure everyone’s opportunity to attain their highest level of health. Racism is named and addressed as are root causes of inequity. The Healthy People framework as well as Health in All Policies: A Guide for State and Local Governments (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. n.d.) are used to address health equity and social justice.