As nurses take steps to integrate health equity strategies into practice, being able to distinguish the difference between equity and equality when addressing health disparities becomes important. Having a visual tool to illustrate the difference between equality and equity is an invaluable strategy nurses can use to engage patients, families, colleagues, health care teams, system leaders and students in generating important conversations about inclusion and health equity. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has long recognized that graphics are an important educational tool, especially given how people consume information in our fast-paced world in which nearly everyone struggles with information overload. Over the past year they have engaged in a process of updating their graphics on equity for public use.
RWJF Releases New Visual Illustrating Health Equality vs Health Equity
