This collection of resources created jointly by Alliance for Healthier Communities and Access Alliance was developed to support organization-level capacity to address health inequities in healthcare access and quality, as well as health outcomes in community health services.
This website from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) serves as an entry point to access resources, tools and evidence supporting interventions that address social determinants of health. The tools are designed to be used by public health and community and healthcare organizations.
Four fact sheets from La Chaire de recherche du Canada Approches communautaires et inégalités de santé (CACIS) presenting the findings of literature reviews on housing, the food environment, community life and sustainable mobility.
Guest bloggers Christine Johnson (health equity lead) and Karen MacKinnon (nutritionist) discuss Nutrition Month and shifting nutrition communications.
This guide from the American Public Health Association provides a comprehensive overview of the link between climate change and population health, the impact on groups already at a disadvantage due to structural inequities, and core public health roles to address climate change and population health inequities.
This practice tool from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) outlines five steps to help integrate health equity into existing and new public health interventions. It prompts users to identify equity elements relevant to their intervention and ways to address them.
This white paper from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement provides guidance to health care organizations on how they can reduce health inequities related to characteristics linked to discrimination and social exclusion.
This 18-item Self-Evaluation Tool for Action in Partnership allows partners collaboratively working on a specific project to evaluate the strength of their partnership with respect to six conditions of effective partnership.
This gap analysis by the NCCDH focuses attention on the most pressing needs in advancing health equity in public health. It offers guidance for researchers, policy-makers, government decision-makers and public health practitioners.
This inventory from the University of Victoria’s Equity Lens in Public Health (ELPH) project describes 112 tools that public health practitioners can use to support the systemic promotion of health equity.
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