Healthy Living: Public policy makes a difference
A brief video describing how public policy can support healthy living, told through the stories of two low-income mothers in Vancouver.
Statut socioéconomique
Traiter des déterminants sociaux de la santé : l’inégalité du revenu et la santé
Dans le présent document, on applique les principes directeurs sur la création de messages communs pour surmonter les difficultés entourant les communications sur l’inégalité du revenu et l’inégalité en santé. Les principes directeurs ont été publiés par le Conseil canadien sur les déterminants sociaux de la santé.
The town with no poverty
The author of this report analyzed routinely collected health administrative data to re-examine the health and social outcomes/effects of a guaranteed annual income experiment carried out in Dauphin, Manitoba in the mid-1970s.
Health for All: Building Winnipeg’s Health Equity Action Plan
This report lays the foundation for a Health Equity Action Plan for the city of Winnipeg. The document provides a framework for understanding and collaboratively addressing health equity by introducing principles, strategies, and suggested areas for action.
Tackling the wider determinants of health and health inequalities: evidence from systematic reviews
This review-of-reviews identified 32 recent systematic reviews of interventions aimed at influencing health and health inequalities through the social determinants of health. There was some evidence that housing and work environment interventions have the potential to reduce health “inequalities.”
Une stratégie et des indicateurs pour la surveillance des inégalités sociales de santé au Québec
This report proposes a strategy, indicators, and tools for measuring inequalities in order to initiate monitoring of social inequalities in health in Quebec.
Large forces affecting health equity: How health equity is affected by societal shifts such as hom
Dr. Lynn McIntyre, Professor and CIHR Chair in Gender and Health, University of Calgary and President of the Canadian Public Health Association, shows how financial policy affects people’s ability to purchase nutritious food.
Pathways to improving well-being for Indigenous peoples: How living conditions decide health
This paper highlights the interconnectedness between social determinants and Indigenous peoples’ health. The authors argue that efforts to reduce current health inequities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples must attend not only to the symptoms of ill health, but also to the factors that underlie ill health.
Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Health
The Rio Declaration is a call by the World Health Organization to end health inequities world-wide. Published in October, 2011, it outlines a global political commitment to eliminate health inequities and the underlying social conditions that cause them.
The Public Health Observatory handbook of health inequalities measurement
Do you want to monitor or measure inequalities in health in your region? This online book from the South East England Public Health Observatory (SEPHO) provides an array of methods to monitor and measure inequalities at a local level.