Promoting health equity: WHO health inequality monitoring at global and national levels
Summary of key global and national health inequality monitoring tools from the World Health Organization, including information about how to use them.
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Does public health advocacy seek to redress health inequities? A scoping review
The gap between public health’s advocacy role in addressing health inequities – and actual practice – is explored in this scoping review of peer reviewed and grey public health advocacy literature.
Economic arguments for shifting health dollars upstream
This discussion paper presents key economic arguments that support the call to re-think how we distribute health care dollars, concluding that a shift towards the upstream determinants of health is warranted on the basis of economics, as well as social justice values.
Inequalities in health: Definitions, concepts and theories
This article provides a clear and accessible review of issues related to understanding, measuring and assessing health inequalities. The authors also consider implications for developing program and policy interventions to reduce health inequalities.
Our Life: A new wave of public health
An illustrated video about what is required to sustain a new wave in public health to address growing health inequalities and support a shift to a wellness-oriented public health system.
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.
Thirteen public interventions in Canada that have contributed to a reduction in health inequalities
This report examines 13 programs or policies that have had some success in reducing health inequalities in Canada. All of the selected interventions set out to reduce health inequities through the social determinants of health, and they were evaluated using current medical evidence-based standards.
La santé publique a la parole : Divulgation volontaire en faveur de l’équité en santé
Dans cette vidéo, des décideurs et chercheurs de la santé publique décrivent comment on peut utiliser les données pour sciemment révéler le véritable portrait de l’équité en santé et des déterminants sociaux de la santé dans les collectivités.
Rising to the Challenge: Sex- and gender-based analysis for health planning, policy and research in
This guide was designed to support sex- and gender-based analysis (SGBA) in planning health programs, developing health policies and conducting research. SGBA identifies health inequities arising from gender relations and the interaction of gender with other social factors.
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.