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?”
Intended for planners, health policy-makers, health system managers and other stakeholders, this online course provides insight into how health regions across Canada are addressing health equity.
The Association of Academic Health Centers’ online toolkit seeks to engage academic health center leadership to enhance the research, communication, collaboration, and action focused on social determinants of health.
An overview of proceedings from a May 2014 meeting of senior leaders and decision-makers in Canadian public health about advancing provincial/territorial capacity for health equity.
The purpose of this report is to showcase Canada’s recent actions that contribute to the commitments stated in the World Health Organization’s Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Health .
This report is a roadmap for the province to move towards economic and social inclusion for all. It builds on the momentum of New Brunswick’s first poverty reduction plan launched in 2009, and presents the second phase of the province’s planning, for 2014-19.
Hurdles to Health is a personal narrative about a Saskatoon family, shared by a wife and mother of a low-income household. This video shows the family’s daily struggles caused by the barriers poverty creates to achieving overall health and wellbeing.
In this three minute interview segment, Connie Clement, Scientific Director of the NCCDH, describes the fundamental components needed for a Canada-wide, health equity agenda, and the first actions required to move that agenda forward.
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.
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.
