Learning from Practice: Advocacy for health equity – Hamilton Public Health Services
This paper highlights the experience of Hamilton Public Health in advocating for the social determinants of health and health equity.
Intersectoral action
Multiple actors bringing diverse knowledge to improve health equity: Dialogue proceedings
These proceedings summarize an open space forum held in Quebec City in 2015. The event explored the question: “What are the opportunities to reduce social inequities in health if we bring together knowledge gathered from experience, intervention, research, and decision-making?”
Key public health resources for advocacy and health equity: A curated list
This curated list points to key resources to support advocacy for health equity by public health practitioners.
Let’s Talk: Advocacy and health equity
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.
Public Health Speaks: Public Health Roles for Improving Health Equity
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.
Learning to work differently: Implementing Ontario’s SDOH Public Health Nurse Initiative
This case study explores the development and implementation of social determinant of health public health nurse (SDH PHN) positions across Ontario’s 36 public health agencies. The report explores the supports and barriers to implementing equity-focused positions to improve public health organization capacity to act on SDH and advance health equity. This is one of a series of case studies about leadership for health equity.
My new health equity position: Where do I start?
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.
The 5 Ws of Intersectoral Collaboration
What is intersectoral collaboration (ISC)? Why engage in this practice, when is it needed, and who participates? Click here to learn more.
Leadership for health equity: Working intersectorally and engaging the community in Western Health
This story about leadership at Western Health in Newfoundland is one of a series of case studies about leadership for health equity. This case explores the structures and processes the health authority put in place to support intersectoral action and community engagement for health equity.
Public Health Speaks: Intersectoral action for health equity
In this video, public health decision-makers and researchers discuss the necessity to work across sectors and organizations to improve the social and economic factors that affect the distribution of health.