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 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.
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 share their understanding of health equity and the social determinants of health.
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.
As Research Assistant for the NCCDH, I’ve often drawn on lessons learned during my time in Geneva.
This quick-reference guide is intended for public health practitioners, planners and decision makers who want to strengthen the equitability of public health and health sector programs and services.
