One of the central conversations throughout the gathering “Pathways to Health Equity for Aboriginal Peoples” was about different ways of knowing and how this is critical to doing research and knowledge translation that is meaningful to the Indigenous peoples (First Nations, Inuit, Metis) of Canada.
This resource presents an accessible action framework for those directly engaged in creating community health status reports, as well as those interested in learning how to use population health status reporting to drive action to improve health equity.
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.
This “briefing note” presents the mixed evidence about the effectiveness of using social media to change people’s health-related behaviours. In presents the evidence on best practices in social media messaging whether social media is a more equitable way to reach all population groups.
This blog describes my initial work in matching the NCCDH’s four “Public Health Roles for Improving Health Equity” with concrete examples and tools. This piece of work gave me some sense of ‘where to start.’ Public Health Roles for Improving Health Equity.
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.
By placing organizations, networks and individuals on equal ground, social media can create opportunities to engage multiple sectors on issues related to the social determinants of health and health equity, and can offer a complementary online environment within which public health professionals can share thoughts, resources, and follow opportunities for further exchange.
The Health Equity Impact Assessment Tool, which includes a workbook and a template, was developed to help decision makers identify how a program, policy or other initiative will impact the health of population groups in both intended and unintended ways.
The planning template outlines the procedures and processes required to implement a population health approach.
