This free, eight-part series of online courses (30 to 45 minutes each) helps learners build the skills they need to support community health assessment and health improvement work.
Liberating structures are processes that “include and unleash everyone.” At the NCCDH, we have found these processes to be of great benefit in fostering people’s commitment and energy, and bringing everyone into the work that will lead us to greater health equity.
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.
Are you working with your community? Find guidance about how to design community engagement processes and assess impact.
Find resources and connect with others working in health promotion on The Community Tool Box. This is a website with more than 7,000 pages of practical guidance about how to engage with your community to create positive change and improve health and well-being.
While research is growing about effective ways to improve health equity, action lags behind. This resource describes six knowledge to action models that can help you translate evidence in a way that promotes and supports action on the social determinants of health.
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.
The 12 tools in this toolkit are designed to help practitioners, managers and researchers identify health equity research needs, and use existing research to advocate for health equity-oriented policy or program change.
This article considers the effectiveness of a strength-based research methodology used to explore what works in public health nursing, and to generate recommendations for provincial and federal decision-makers.
On a conçu l’outil d’évaluation de l’impact sur l’équité en matière de santé (EIES) pour aider les personnes œuvrant au sein des organismes du système de soins de santé ou ailleurs à prévoir les répercussions qu’auront leurs activités sur la santé de la population ontarienne. Le ministère de la Santé et des Soins de longue durée de l’Ontario a créé cet outil pour aider les décideurs à renforcer les effets positifs et à atténuer les effets négatifs des décisions organisationnelles sur les disparités en santé.
