Home Our Health Share Share Share Copy Link Copy Link Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Email Health equity: health inequalities & health inequities Health equity is the notion that everyone should have a fair opportunity to attain their full health potential and that no one should be disadvantaged Scroll down Body VicHealth works to improve health and wellbeing by reducing health inequities through the community.VicHealth’s ambition is for one million more Victorians to have better health and wellbeing by 2023. At the heart of this endeavour is an equitable Victoria, where all people have the opportunity for a healthy life.Fair Foundations: The VicHealth framework for health equity makes the distinction between health inequalities and health inequities: Health inequalities are differences in health status between population groups Health inequities are differences in health status between population groups that are socially produced, systematic in their unequal distribution across the population, avoidable and unfair health inequality health inequalities health inequity health inequities health equity Title Research and Publications Body See all research and publications related to health equity. Australia in 2030 - What is our path to health for all? Read more VicHealth Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan Read more VicHealth Health Equity Strategy 2019–2023 Read more