Backgrounder: The relationship between burden of disease and health equity

By Barbara Clow Comments Off on Backgrounder: The relationship between burden of disease and health equity burden of disease, Canada, disease, education, effects of inequity, ethnicity, gender, housing, illness, income, language, measures, poverty, religion, social determinants of health, vaccines

Everyone deserves to live a long life in full health, but not everyone is so fortunate. Some individuals and groups are more at risk of falling ill, becoming severely ill or disabled or dying prematurely (that is, before the average expected life span).