Equity also has a role to play in our lives and experiences, including our health. In an ideal world, everyone would be healthy and have the same advantages they need to thrive, regardless of their sex, gender identity or sexual orientation, where they live, their level of education, income or ability. But we don’t live in an ideal world. Some people have social, economic or political advantages that make it easier to get and stay healthy, while other people do not have the same advantages or they are in some way excluded, and their health is consequently poorer