This reading list is designed to offer a starting point for public health practitioners hoping to deepen their understanding of the causes and implications of structural racism. In addition, the collection highlights different strategies for dismantling racist systems and offers examples of communities that have experience success with these aims.
The seventh release in our Let’s Talk series discusses racism as a critical factor that impacts health and wellbeing. The concepts of race, racism and racialization are described, with attention to settler colonialism and structural racism.
NCCDH staff chose seven documents that have significantly informed our understanding of how health is affected by structural (e.g., global and national economic policy) and intermediate (e.g., income and education) determinants of health. This list provides a brief description of the contribution for each of these documents.
This curated list of resources for environmental health practitioners provides concrete information on addressing the social determinants of health (SDH) and health equity.
This six week MOOC (massive online open course) offered by the University of Manchester provides a general introduction for anyone wanting to understand the basics of population health.
This article provides a clear and accessible review of issues related to understanding, measuring and assessing health inequalities. The authors also consider implications for developing program and policy interventions to reduce health inequalities.
This curated list points to key resources to support advocacy for health equity by public health practitioners.
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.
In this video, public health decision-makers and researchers describe “targeted universalism” as an approach to reducing health inequities across the entire population.
In this video, public health decision-makers and researchers share their understanding of health equity and the social determinants of health.
