The state of Florida no longer outlines health equity as its top priority, instead rating Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia as its chief healthcare concerns for the next five years.
The Florida Department of Health's list of 2022-2026 goals and objectives has no references to"health equity," as Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo tells the Tampa Bay Times that the term has become political and has become counterproductive to addressing healthcare.“It’s an imprecise term,” Ladapo told the outlet. “It’s a term that really has grown to have more of a political meaning than a meaning related to health. But it’s the State Health Improvement Plan.
"Health equity is the attainment of the highest level of health for all people and requires focusing on avoidable inequalities, historical and contemporary injustices, and the elimination of health and health care disparities. It provides the foundation for success in all the other health-issue priorities," the 2017-2021 objectives report indicated.
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