7 Ways to Fight Health Inequities

Premature death is more than three times more likely to occur in those at the bottom income levels of American society. Even middle-income Americans are more than twice as likely to die earlier than top earners.

The reasons are wide-ranging: economics, race, genetics, gaps in health care access, and social conditions ranging from inadequate housing, discrimination, environmental exposures, education, and the stresses of living in poverty or as a newly arrived immigrant all play a role. 

Seven HSPH faculty members suggest ways the next U.S. President can level the playing field for all Americans.

Read text and watch video discussions with each faculty member.

	Extend a safety net to deserving immigrant families.		Put research on early childhood development into action.
	Join the global fight against tobacco		Support a Health Rights movement
	Encourage investments in long-term health		Champion social and economic equality
	Desegregate our health care system