This review-of-reviews identified 32 recent systematic reviews of interventions aimed at influencing health and health inequalities through the social determinants of health. There was some evidence that housing and work environment interventions have the potential to reduce health “inequalities.”
Strong and visionary leadership is a common feature among regions that have moved ahead in health equity work. Community engagement is a promising public health practice to address the social determinants of health and reduce health inequities. The World Health Organization points to the value of meaningfully involving groups in society through representation in decision-making,
Dr. Lynn McIntyre, Professor and CIHR Chair in Gender and Health, University of Calgary and President of the Canadian Public Health Association, shows how financial policy affects people’s ability to purchase nutritious food.
This guide is designed to help public health practitioners choose or adapt a community engagement framework that focuses on achieving greater health equity through the social determinants of health.
This guide offers ideas—with stories to illustrate— for how public health can work with communities to build organizational capacity, develop partnerships and coalitions, and make the case for health equity.
The Rio Declaration is a call by the World Health Organization to end health inequities world-wide. Published in October, 2011, it outlines a global political commitment to eliminate health inequities and the underlying social conditions that cause them.
This report describes and compares the institutionalization of health impact assessment (HIA) in nine middle- and high-income countries, and within the European Union, with an eye to identifying the factors that enhance effective and wide-spread implementation of HIA.
In this short report, the CMA summarizes Canadians’ feedback to the question “what makes us sick?”— feedback gathered during teleconference and town hall meetings. It makes 12 recommendations for action.
Published by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), this book includes political analysis and practice examples to support the re-orientation of public health practice to address the root causes of health inequities.
This report focuses on health equity work in francophone countries and communities. It proposes “bold, tenacious, and concerted actions” (M. Marmot), including a road map for reducing social inequalities in health. This resource is available in French only.
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