Determining Health: Migrant health issue brief
Immigration status is a significant yet often overlooked determinant of health. This issue brief outlines the health and health equity impacts of immigration status for migrants in Canada to build understanding and guide public health planning, policy and action.
Podcast episode transcript & companion documents
Season 2 companion documents are now available. Whether you missed an episode or want to dive deeper into the discussion, you can now read along with key quotes, related resources and discussion questions to support reflection, sharing and action.
Mind the Disruption: An NCCDH Project
On Mind the Disruption, the new NCCDH podcast, you’ll hear the stories of people who have disrupted the usual ways of doing things in their organizations, communities, and society in pursuit of better health for all.
Welcome to the NCCDH
Supporting the Canadian public health community to address the structural and social determinants of health and advance health equity for all.
The National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH) works to move knowledge into action on the conditions of daily life in which people are born, grow up, live, work, play, learn, and age and the driving forces that shape these conditions – the structural and social determinants of health.
NCCDH supports uptake and integration of relevant knowledge and evidence in public health practice, programs and policy through development of evidence-informed resources, exchanging promising practices with the Canadian public health community and bringing together diverse voices and multisectoral perspectives.
New NCCDH Resources
Using health equity frameworks to advance health equity in organizational and system contexts: Learnings from the field
This workshop report presents considerations and guidance on ways to use health equity frameworks to disrupt systems of oppression and advance health equity. The report is grounded in the practical knowledge, expertise and experiences of approximately 50 workshop participants from public health, health care and social service organizations.
Partnering with community-organizing groups practice brief
This practice brief describes four public health roles to support community-organizing efforts and advance health equity. Actionable steps and practice examples are outlined for each role to guide its implementation.
Toward a safe and healthy place to call home
This document summarizes results from a 2023–2024 survey of Ontario public health unit practices to promote healthy housing. Highlights of survey results are presented alongside public health roles and promising practices to address inadequate and unhealthy housing conditions as a determinant of health and key driver of health inequity.
Determining Health: Migrant health issue brief
Immigration status is a significant yet often overlooked determinant of health. This issue brief outlines the health and health equity impacts of immigration status for migrants in Canada to build understanding and guide public health planning, policy and action.
Determining Health: Food justice practice brief
This practice brief describes key dimensions of and action on food justice as a public health priority. It provides a framework of eight principles of food justice, with a description and concrete actions for each, to guide practice.
How Whiteness shapes nursing in Canada – what does the literature say? A rapid review
This rapid review seeks to understand how Whiteness shapes the Canadian nursing profession. Examples of how polices, practices and ideas uphold Whiteness and implications for leadership were synthesized from literature.