This summary document provides an overview of recent work by RentSafe, a program under the Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and the Environment (CPCHE), including recent findings and recommendations that can inform public health action on housing as a social determinant of health.
This series of five short videos from the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) is designed to help public health inspectors (aka environmental health officers) provide basic information on how the social determinants of health and health equity apply to environmental public health practice.
In this blog post, population health promoter Cora Janzen (Saskatchewan Health Authority) discusses how healthy built environments and health equity intersect in Saskatoon’s poverty-reduction strategy and use of lived experience in her health authority’s work
This curated list from the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH) highlights resources that support and inform public health action on the built environment as a determinant of health inequities.
This 18-item Self-Evaluation Tool for Action in Partnership allows partners collaboratively working on a specific project to evaluate the strength of their partnership with respect to six conditions of effective partnership.
When I first started working for Alberta Health Services in 2011, I was tasked with creating the WalkABle Alberta community engagement process to create community reports that provide recommendations to improve community walkability. Let me tell you what I did.
Canada’s chief public health officer has identified that bringing attention to “how the built environment contributes to widening or reducing health inequities”[4] is a priority for promoting and improving the health of all Canadians. As we try to understand this relationship further, we think it is important to consider three questions.
This webinar took place in English. This recording is one part of a series. To see the others please click on the ‘Playlist’ button in the top right corner. Human health is significantly influenced by the design of our communities. On a population health level, we are much more likely to achieve optimal health if our
The British Columbia Centre for Disease Control’s Healthy Built Environment Linkages Toolkit synthesizes current research on five core “features” of the built environment and addresses how these features influence population health.
This report offers research results from Ontario-based initiative RentSafe, a project that seeks to address the underlying circumstances that contribute to unhealthy housing and identify potential solutions and actions that will lead to healthy housing for all.
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