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?”
The Association of Academic Health Centers’ online toolkit seeks to engage academic health center leadership to enhance the research, communication, collaboration, and action focused on social determinants of health.
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 ).
The purpose of this report is to showcase Canada’s recent actions that contribute to the commitments stated in the World Health Organization’s Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Health .
This report is a roadmap for the province to move towards economic and social inclusion for all. It builds on the momentum of New Brunswick’s first poverty reduction plan launched in 2009, and presents the second phase of the province’s planning, for 2014-19.
This curated list points to key resources to support advocacy for health equity by public health practitioners.
19es Journées annuelles de santé publique. This session will be held in French. This session is co-hosted by the Quebec Population Health Research Network, the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health and the Institut national de santé publique du Québec. The think tank is a new concept developed for JASP 2015. Its objective is
An illustrated video about what is required to sustain a new wave in public health to address growing health inequalities and support a shift to a wellness-oriented public health system.
This video is a great introduction to how the social determinants of health, a complex web of interconnected and dynamic social factors, can and do affect our health and well-being.
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.
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