Louise Potvin, Department of Social & Preventative Medicine, Université de Montréal, says that “mobilizing health” means working to improve two things: 1) availability of health protecting resources in a community; and 2) people’s capacity to transform those resources into health.
Ce guide a pour objectif d’aider les praticiens de la santé publique à choisir et à adapter un cadre d’engagement communautaire propice à renforcer l’équité en santé en agissant sur les déterminants sociaux de la santé.
This guide offers ideas—with stories to illustrate— for how public health can work with communities to build organizational capacity, develop partnerships and coalitions, and make the case for health equity.
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.
This report describes and compares the institutionalization of health impact assessment (HIA) in nine middle- and high-income countries, and within the European Union, with an eye to identifying the factors that enhance effective and wide-spread implementation of HIA.
In this short report, the CMA summarizes Canadians’ feedback to the question “what makes us sick?”— feedback gathered during teleconference and town hall meetings. It makes 12 recommendations for action.
Published by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), this book includes political analysis and practice examples to support the re-orientation of public health practice to address the root causes of health inequities.
“… the context [within which social inequalities in health are constructed] is more than just a living environment stricto sensu. It is, in fact, the fabric of everyday social relationships.”
This substantial, interactive, three-part training program is designed to strengthen the skills of professionals working directly or indirectly with Indigenous people by increasing Aboriginal-specific knowledge and enhancing self-awareness.
This free, six to 12 hour course is designed using case studies to teach public health practitioners how to conduct a health impact assessment (HIA). The course was developed by the National Health Service in Scotland, which has produced an impressive eLearning program of study.
