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Convenors: Mark Petticrew, PhD, Peter Tugwell, MD, and Vivian Welch PhD

Coordinator: Jennifer Petkovic, MSc

The Campbell and Cochrane Equity Methods Group is registered with both the Campbell and the Cochrane Collaborations. It was first registered as the Cochrane Health Equity Field and the Campbell Equity Methods Group on the 27th of June, 2005.

Campbell Collaboration Website: http://www.campbellcollaboration.org/

Cochrane Collaboration Website: https://www.cochrane.org/

One useful definition of health inequalities is, "the virtually universal phenomenon of variation in health indicators ... associated with socioeconomic status" (Last 1995); inequalities may also be seen between genders or geographic groups, for example. Health inequalities require three components for calculation: a valid measure of health status, a measure of social position or status, and a statistical method for summarizing the magnitude of the health differences between people in different social positions. Health inequities "are unfair and remediable inequalities" (International Society for Equity in Health 2005).