As part of the World Health Organization (WHO) European Health Equity Status Report initiative, a scientific expert review asked why more progress had not been made on advancing health equity in the region. The review also identified four key drivers of health equity: accountability, policy coherence, social participation and empowerment.
In this blog post, author Charlotte Riordon, a recent graduate of St. Francis Xavier University’s Rankin School of Nursing, discusses the background and findings of her honours research project examining public health reform in Canada.
This website from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) serves as an entry point to access resources, tools and evidence supporting interventions that address social determinants of health. The tools are designed to be used by public health and community and healthcare organizations.
NHS Scotland’s Place Standard Tool is a planning framework to assess the quality of both rural and urban places, designed to support communities, public and private sectors, businesses and citizens to identify improvements to physical and social aspects of the places where people live.
Building Healthy, Equitable Communities is a series of six training modules by ChangeLab Solutions. The series is focused on addressing health inequities through policy development that is geared to meet the needs of communities at risk of structural and health inequities.
This 2016 supplemental document to the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Canada Communicable Disease Report (CCDR) has a focus on social determinants of health and how infectious disease prevention and control intersect with health equity.
NCCDH Knowledge Translation Specialist Teri Emrich spoke to public health organizations in the Maritime provinces who released health inequities reports in recent years to hear how they have been making use of the data.
This commentary article from Ruth Shim, Carol Koplan, Frederick J.P. Langheim, Marc W. Manseau, Rebecca A. Powers and Michael T. Compton provides an overview of the social determinants of mental health, the importance of a population-based approach to positive mental health promotion and opportunities for individual and policy-level action.
This webinar took place in English. The NCCDH and Health Promotion Canada (HPC) collaborated on a series of webinars to highlight several chapters of the book Health Promotion in Canada 4th edition: New Perspectives on Theory, Practice, Policy, and Research (2018). The goal was to explore how various themes in this book apply to public health
This curated list from the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH) highlights resources that support and inform public health action on housing as a key influence on health equity.
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