This addition to the NCCDH’s “Let’s Talk” series discusses advocacy within public health. Attention is brought to the shift towards advocacy in upstream policy and structural change. Discussion questions are included to help public health staff examine their work.
This document summarizes an online conversation—hosted by the NCCDH in 2013— about the use and value of a four-role model for public health action to improve health equity.
This document summarizes an online conversation—hosted by the NCCDH in 2014— about finding resources to move public health work upstream.
This blog describes my initial work in matching the NCCDH’s four “Public Health Roles for Improving Health Equity” with concrete examples and tools. This piece of work gave me some sense of ‘where to start.’ Public Health Roles for Improving Health Equity.
In this video, public health decision-makers and researchers describe how data can be used to deliberately uncover the health equity and the social determinants of health picture in communities.
In this video, public health decision-makers and researchers discuss the necessity to work across sectors and organizations to improve the social and economic factors that affect the distribution of health.
In this video, public health decision-makers and researchers discuss the importance of trust and relationship building in community engagement for health equity.
This story is about Nunavut’s highly collaborative approach to poverty reduction, and is part of an NCCDH series about leadership for health equity. It discusses the roots of poverty in the territory, and how government and community organizations set out together to build health through poverty reduction.
This guide is designed to help public health practitioners choose or adapt a community engagement framework that focuses on achieving greater health equity through the social determinants of health.
More than 60 people working in public and community health in PEI came together in Charlottetown in early April to share their passion for health equity, and to learn more about the many ways that this work is taking shape in PEI.
