This is the story of Saskatoon Health Region’s (SHR) work to improve immunization rates and reduce the spread of influenza in Saskatoon’s six core neighbourhoods. SHR’s existing strong socio-economic and health disparities data made it possible to prioritize these core neighbourhoods for H1N1 vaccination programs.
This story describes how Manitoba Health, Healthy Living and Seniors prioritized Aboriginal peoples in its response to the 2009-10 H1N1 influenza pandemic, and used this experience to further develop influenza prevention and immunization equity measures.
In this video, Canadian public health practitioners and researchers reflect on what competencies public health staff require to work effectively on creating a more equal society, and on how public health organizations can support the use of competencies.
This report, a joint project of the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health and the Community Health Nurses of Canada, investigated leadership development opportunities to build capacity for health equity work among public health nurses. It consists of a literature scan and survey of community health nurses in leadership positions.
This 11-page document defines population health advocacy and describes how it fits within Vancouver Coastal Health’s strategic approach. A number of tools and references for planning and implementing advocacy action are included.
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.
Do you want to monitor or measure inequalities in health in your region? This online book from the South East England Public Health Observatory (SEPHO) provides an array of methods to monitor and measure inequalities at a local level.
This is our last excerpt interview from the Public Health Speaks: Organizational standards as a promising practice to advance health equity in preparation for the Dec. 3rd webinar. Join us starting next Tuesday for the online conversation.
To take a health equity-oriented approach, public health activities need to be grounded in the values of social justice. To reduce inequities in public health practice practitioners need a supportive organizational culture, and they need to have the appropriate knowledge, skills, and attitudes. How do individual competencies and organizational commitments contribute to public health’s capacity
Follow us each Tuesday until November 26th to read an excerpt from Public Health Speaks: Organizational standards as a promising practice to advance health equity to help co-create the December 3rd webinar.
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