Learning from Practice: Advocacy for health equity – Generation Squeeze
This paper highlights the experience of the non-profit group Generation Squeeze in advocating for increased investment in people in their 20s, 30s and 40s and their children.
Leadership & capacity building
Common agenda for public health action on health equity
This paper identifies eight common priorities of public health stakeholders who are working to improve the social determinants of health and health equity.
Learning from Practice: Advocacy for health equity – Hamilton Public Health Services
This paper highlights the experience of Hamilton Public Health in advocating for the social determinants of health and health equity.
Multiple actors bringing diverse knowledge to improve health equity: Dialogue proceedings
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?”
Rethinking public health
What does it mean to ‘rethink public health? The association of Public Health agencies (alPHa) in Ontario posed this question as the organizing theme of their annual conference held in June 2015.
Public Health Leadership Competencies for Public Health Practice in Canada released
The National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health is proud to co-announce the release of the Leadership Competencies for Public Health practice in Canada.
The Path Taken: Developing organizational capacity for improving health equity in four Ontario health units
This document describes how four public health units in Ontario have worked to integrate health equity into strategic planning and everyday practice. The report describes the variety of approaches, lessons learned and first-hand staff experiences.
Let’s Talk: Advocacy and health equity
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.
An environmental scan and assessment of online learning opportunities
In 2013, the NCCDH set out to identify and assess good-quality online learning courses on the topics of the social determinants of health and health equity (in both English and French) for public health staff. This report describes our purpose, methodology and results.
Public Health Speaks: Public health leadership for health equity
This document summarizes an online conversation hosted by the NCCDH in 2013 about public health leadership for health equity.