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 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.
In this video, public health decision-makers and researchers describe how data can be used to deliberately uncover the health equity and the social determinants of health picture in communities.
In this video, public health decision-makers and researchers share their reflections on what effective public health leadership looks like: leadership that can advance the equitable distribution of health through interventions related to the social determinants.
The four public health roles is a framework that can help organizations make health equity a strategic focus of their governance, policies, and partnerships.
