This resource, based on interviews with practitioners from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, captures practice-based learning that public health can use when co-creating and implementing health equity frameworks and taking other actions to advance health equity.
This curated resource list presents 10 actionable health equity frameworks, covering a range of topics where public health action is required (e.g., racism, climate change). The list includes resources on other issues that require framework users must consider such as anti-oppression and critical allyship.
This NCCDH review of the literature discusses health equity frameworks that can be used to advance equity in public health contexts. Readers are invited to consider how frameworks, and the ways we work together to create or use them, can break down systems of oppression.
This self-directed introductory online course from the NCCDH and Public Health Ontario is designed to build knowledge, skills and competencies in health equity work. Updates made in 2023 include refreshed content and updated links.
This curated list highlights resources and tools that support public health and other sectors to use health equity language that is person-first, system-focused, and asset-based.
This Equity in Action story is distilled from an interview with Fae Johnstone, Executive Director of Wisdom2Action. The interview took place in July 2022, and its details should be considered within the context of that time period. Deadnaming, misgendering and other forms of discrimination and stigma in the health care system foster fear in the
This evaluation guide developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada provides practical tools and strategies to implement and measure progress of community-based programs designed to prevent substance-related harms among youth.
This webinar took place in English. Cliquez ici pour le webinaire en français (24 février 2021). This webinar is presented in partnership with the National Collaborating Centres for Healthy Public Policy (NCCHPP) and the Methods and Tools (NCCMT). The Tool for Assessing the Effects of Local Intersectoral Action is an interactive online tool that uses timeline mapping
This webinar took place in English. To support learning and capacity building for health equity action, the NCCDH has developed a suite of evidence-informed online learning tools. These tools also respond to a growing need for free, virtual and bilingual training materials on the social determinants of health and health equity. Individual practitioners can use
This guide explores tools that can be used to assess organizational capacity as a facet of existing organizational assessments. This guide is part of the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH)’s Organizational Capacity for Health Equity Action Initiative (OCI).
