
What Do You Know About Health Equity?
What are the key determinants of health, how severe are health inequities, and who is at greatest risk? Put your awareness to the test with these true-or-false questions.

Health inequities are most common in low- and middle-income countries.

A white American will live about 3.5 years longer than a Black American born on the same day.

The gap between white American and Black American infant mortality rates has only improved slightly in the past 50 years.

Whether or not you have health insurance is the best predictor of your health.

Wealthy women are 20 times more likely to have a birth attended by a skilled health worker than poor women.

Most deaths from noncommunicable diseases like heart disease and diabetes occur in high-income countries.
