Read the article: We Learned the Wrong Lessons from the Tuskegee’ Experiment’
According Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), health equity is achieved when every person has the opportunity to “attain his or her full health potential,” and no one is “disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or other socially determined circumstances.” Why is equity in healthcare essential? How can we improve well-being by fighting bias, discrimination, and ignorance? Answer your question with supporting evidence from the readings assigned this week.