Supporting Health Equity in the Implementation of AB 928 (Berman, 2021) [1]
Whereas, “[H]ealth disparities are preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations” and result from multiple factors, including poverty, inadequate access to healthcare, individual and behavioral factors, and educational inequalities [2] and “[h]ealth equity is achieved when every person has the opportunity to ‘attain his or her full health potential‘ and no one is ’disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social posit