This is about an initiative that Northern Health, in British Columbia, undertook to improve the health of men in their region, and how their work showcases community engagement as a promising practice to reduce inequities in health.
Leadership is integral to action on the social determinants of health and health equity. This guest blog written by Erika Haney, Marty Mako and Tannisha Lambert for the alPHa-OPHA Health Equity Workgroup in Ontario describes the leadership framework used in their work. The Health Equity Workgroup (HEWG) is a joint work group of the Association
This blog describes my initial work in matching the NCCDH’s four « Public Health Roles for Improving Health Equity » with concrete examples and tools. This piece of work gave me some sense of ‘where to start.’ Public Health Roles for Improving Health Equity.
Since our consultant Brent Moloughney brought the four public health roles for health equity action to our attention, in 2010, we have been both promoting them as a framework (Let’s Talk Public health roles for health equity: an action framework and a 2013 CNNET webinar) and tracking how people in public health are using them.
What is intersectoral collaboration (ISC)? Why engage in this practice, when is it needed, and who participates? Click here to learn more.
New release! How and what we learned about equity-integrated population health status reporting. The final document in the Learning Together series from the Population Health Status Reporting Initiative is now available on our website; this may be the end of the series, but it’s also the beginning of our work to develop a deeper understanding of what it takes to move beyond health equity indicators to action.
In September, Health Promotion Ontario hosted its 26th conference. As with last year’s conference the theme was the social determinants of health.
This is our last excerpt interview from the Public Health Speaks: Organizational standards as a promising practice to advance health equity in preparation for the Dec. 3rd webinar. Join us starting next Tuesday for the online conversation.
Follow us each Tuesday until November 26th to read an excerpt from Public Health Speaks: Organizational standards as a promising practice to advance health equity to help co-create the December 3rd webinar.
