This paper describes the national health equity strategies of 14 European countries. Based on this survey, the authors present the challenges and key conditions for success for an effective national strategy that can help reduce the unequal distribution of health and its social determinants.
Confounded by how to address the upstream causes of health inequities within your practice? NACCHO’s Handbook for action provides public health practitioners with the concepts, methods and tools to address the root causes of health inequities.
Interested in collaborating with partners in the healthcare system to improve health equity? This 2013 report from the United Kingdom describes practical ways to help alleviate inequalities in health status through clinical practice.
Are you working with your community? Find guidance about how to design community engagement processes and assess impact.
Community-based, participatory research is a change strategy that involves citizens and researchers, equitably. This report outlines eight promising practices drawn from American experiences, presents six case studies, and directs the reader to dozens of tools and resources.
This two-year review of health inequalities in England presents evidence and recommends six policy objectives, broken down into 20 policy recommendations.
Improving health literacy is about offering people tools and creating environments that allow them to have control over their own health. This paper offers a framework for improving the health literacy of Canadians.
This literature review and call for policy change set out to advance the role of nursing in reducing health inequities.
Health Evidence in partnership with the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health will be hosting a 90 minute webinar funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (KTB-112487), presenting key messages and implications for practice in the area of social determinants of health on Wednesday September 19, 2012 at 1:00 pm EST. Maureen Dobbins,
The NCCDH is pleased to present an expedited rapid systematic review examining the effectiveness and impact of intersectoral action as a public health practice to advance health equity.
