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.
Intersectoral action
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.
The town with no poverty
The author of this report analyzed routinely collected health administrative data to re-examine the health and social outcomes/effects of a guaranteed annual income experiment carried out in Dauphin, Manitoba in the mid-1970s.
Health for All: Building Winnipeg’s Health Equity Action Plan
This report lays the foundation for a Health Equity Action Plan for the city of Winnipeg. The document provides a framework for understanding and collaboratively addressing health equity by introducing principles, strategies, and suggested areas for action.
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 equity action spectrum: Taking a comprehensive approach.
First in a series of five policy briefs describing practical actions to address inequities in health facing Europe, The equity action spectrum describes a framework that can be used by regions to develop comprehensive and systematic ways to address inequities in health.
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.
Public health leadership development in Canada
This report, a joint project of the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health and the Community Health Nurses of Canada, investigated leadership development opportunities to build capacity for health equity work among public health nurses. It consists of a literature scan and survey of community health nurses in leadership positions.