The Connecticut Department of Public Health recently announced a new office to address health disparities in Connecticut that are related to people’s backgrounds.
The Office of Health Equity was established to eliminate differences in disease, disability and death rates based on ethnicity, age, gender, socioeconomic position, immigration status, sexual minority status, language, disability, homelessness, mental illness or geography, the department reported.
The office replaces the former Office of Multicultural Health.
“Promoting health equity is central to our mission at the Department of Public Health,” said Dr. Jewel Mullen, department commissioner, in a statement. “This office will provide support and resources to all our programs so they can incorporate health equity into their everyday work.”
The Office of Health Equity has two epidemiologists and a research analyst. It also is supported by staff across the agency.
Crystal:
You do your readers a significant disservice reporting in such seemingly serious fashion on inane government boondoggles as The Office of Health Equity. You would far better serve us if you’d call this out as the pile of horse dung (with a healthy price tag) that we all now it to be.
Liberalism is killing this country….report on that!
I’m missing something here… it’s been illegal (for years) to use race, lifestyle, economic status, national backgrounds, etc. in healthcare and/or access to care.
What has been a problem is how do we pay for health. The ACA/Obamacare didn’t solve that. It made non-wealthy people who had affordable coverage pay more for less so they could subsidize those who may or may not have less (assets don’t matter, income does) pay less. Where’s the equity in that?
I agree with Mr. Duffy on this being a boondoggle.