title: How Policy Improves Health.
abstract: A discussion of health equity should be intricately examined in policy and practice discourse about the healthcare industry. This article addresses health equity with strategies to institutionalize it through policy implementation. This discourse is relevant to social work because social workers are charged with elucidating conditions that are maniacal and disadvantageous to racial groups, undocumented workers, immigrants and women. Social workers engaged in policy practice should consider how these stakeholders are excluded from health equity, because of the lack of transformative policy implementation that addresses industry practices that encourage disparity and maintain equity. This article hopes to provide a helpful view of health equity.
authors.affiliation: a Ethelyn R. Strong School of Social Work, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
authors.forename: Colita Nichols
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Fairfax
authors.forename: Marvin D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Feit
mesh_terms: D006291:Health Policy; D006304:Health Status; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D011050:Policy Making; D012935:Social Justice; D012947:Social Work; D014481:United States
keywords: Policy implementation; health disparity; health equity; social justice