Health Inequality Analysis

According to Morrison and Furlong (2014), “health inequality is a descriptive term that can refer either to the total variation in health status across individuals within a population or to a differences in average or total health between two or more populations”. In contrast, a health inequity, or health disparity, is a specific type of health inequality that symbolizes an unjust difference or unfairness in health. Health inequality can be determined in many ways and mostly involved groups of population instead of individuals (Morrison E. & Furlong B. 2014). For example, to determine whether a health inequality is consider inequity, is by using moral judgment, fairness, over all applying some of the principles of ethics. Another way to determine