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Effectiveness

The extent to which a specific intervention, procedure, regimen or service, when deployed in the field in routine circumstances, does what it is intended to do for a specified population.

Empowerment for health

A process through which people gain greater control over decisions and actions affecting their lives. It is the process by which disadvantaged individuals or groups acquire the knowledge and skills needed to assert their rights.

Enabling

Taking action in partnership with individuals or groups to empower them, through the mobilization of human and material resources, to promote and protect their health.

Equality

The principle by which all persons or things under consideration are treated in the same way.

Equity in health

The absence of systematic or potentially remediable differences in health status, access to healthcare and health-enhancing environments, and treatment in one or more aspects of health across populations or population groups defined socially, economically, demographically or geographically within and across countries.
A measure of the degree to which health policies are able to distribute well-being fairly.