Healthy public policy

Healthy public policy

Webinar: Intersectionality and health equity: Exploring opportunities for public health practice and policy

This webinar occured in English only. Cliquez ici pour le webinaire en français (13 decembre 2016). Intersectionality is an approach that puts forward the idea that multiple social positions (e.g., age, culture, (dis)ability, ethnicity, indigeneity, gender, immigrant status, race, sexual orientation, social class, and religion) intersect at the level of individual experience to reflect multiple interlocking/intersecting systems […]

Housing need in Canada: Healthy lives start at home

This 2015 position statement from the Canadian Pediatric Society reviews literature on the impact of housing on health, roles for primary health care providers, and recommendations for action at multiple levels (from patient to policy level).

Economic arguments for shifting health dollars upstream

This discussion paper presents key economic arguments that support the call to re-think how we distribute health care dollars, concluding that a shift towards the upstream determinants of health is warranted on the basis of economics, as well as social justice values.

Pathways to health equity and differential outcomes

This report summarizes findings from a report by the World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health examining public health interventions and implementation approaches that address health inequity in multiple countries and contexts.

Local action on health inequalities: Introduction to a series of evidence papers

This series of evidence reports describes practical, local actions to tackle health inequalities through the social determinants of health. It provides evidence, practical pointers and case studies that can help health system employees achieve key policy objectives in Fair society healthy lives (the 2010 Marmot Review ).

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