Equity & Equality

Equity & Equality

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  Welcome to mypresentation Name – Afsana Rahman 3rd year, 5th semester Roll no- SN044_004 Department of population sciences University of Dhaka POP303-Population Poverty & Inequality
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  Equity: Equity impliesgiving as much advantage, consideration, or latitude to one party what he need actually. Along with economy, effectiveness, and efficiency, Equity is essential for ensuring that extent and costs of funds, goods and services are fairly divided among their recipients. It involves trying to understand and give people what they need actually.
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  Equality: The qualityor state of being equal and having the same rights, social status. Equality aims to ensure that everyone gets the same things in order to enjoy full lives. Equality is ensuring individuals or groups of individuals are not treated differently or less favorably on the basis of age, gender, race, religion, disability.
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  Equality=Sameness Equity= Fairness
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  Equality vs Equity
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  Equality is aboutsameness. It promotes fairness and justice by giving everyone the same thing. But it can only work if everyone starts from the same place. Equity is about fairness. It is about making sure people get access to the same opportunities. Sometimes our differences or history can create barriers to participation, so we must ensure equity before we can enjoy equality.
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  One of thedifferences is the fact that equality obviously denotes that everyone is at the same level, whereas equity denotes everyone is getting the rights what they deserve. Here An example, which would bring out the principal difference between the two, would like a family is in dinner table. Equality would mean that everybody; father, mother and children – would get a piece of the same size. Equity, on the other hand, would mean that they take the sensible option, and divide it according to their needs, i.e. larger sized pieces for the adult and smaller pieces for the children.
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  When we sayequity, we refer to the qualities of justness, fairness, impartiality and even handedness. When we talk about equality, we are talking about equal sharing and exact division. Equality equals quantity, whereas equity equals quality. A perfect example to understand the differences of this two concept is the feminist movement.
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  If women demandthey should be treated in the same way as men, that would not be possible, equality is not possible here, because women and men are different, and cannot be treated in exactly the same way. However, if they demand equity in how the world treats them, it would be a genuine demand. And now they are demanding that they should be given the same rights as men have as human beings. It is fairness, not sameness.
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  The ideas ofequality and equity are often misunderstood and misused. If we talk about equity and equality in education we should be clear that educational equality is that schools should offer all students the same education. This way all students will have an equal chance. And a common understanding of educational equity is that all children should be given the education they need to achieve certain outcomes.
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  The U.S. Centersfor Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) refers to health inequities and health disparities interchangeably as "types of unfair health differences closely linked with social, economic or environmental disadvantages that adversely affect groups of people." As such, equity is a process and equality is an outcome of that process. So the route to achieving equity will not be accomplished through treating everyone equally. It will be achieved by treating everyone equitably, or justly according to their circumstances."
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  For health careproviding the same type and number of resources to all is not needed. In order to reduce the health disparities gap, the underlying issues and individual needs of underserved and vulnerable populations must be effectively addressed. So health equity is more important than health equality in health care term.
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  There is acommon misconception that equity and equality mean the same thing and that they can be used interchangeably. But the truth is they do not and cannot. Yes, the two words are similar, but the difference between them is crucial. So please, do not talk about equality when you really mean equity and do not talk about equity when you mean equality.