Making the Connections: Our city, our society, our health
This video is a great introduction to how the social determinants of health, a complex web of interconnected and dynamic social factors, can and do affect our health and well-being.
Socioeconomic status
Unequal: Social inequalities in health
This animated video uses population data to illustrate the differing life-long influences of social inequalities on underprivileged and affluent citizens.
Hurdles to health
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.
Healthy Living: Public policy makes a difference
A brief video describing how public policy can support healthy living, told through the stories of two low-income mothers in Vancouver.
Communicating the social determinants of health: Income Inequality and Health
This document applies common messaging guidelines to the challenge of communicating the connection between income inequality and health inequality. The guidelines were published by the Canadian Council on the Social Determinants of Health.
The town with no poverty
The author of this report analyzed routinely collected health administrative data to re-examine the health and social outcomes/effects of a guaranteed annual income experiment carried out in Dauphin, Manitoba in the mid-1970s.
Health for All: Building Winnipeg’s Health Equity Action Plan
This report lays the foundation for a Health Equity Action Plan for the city of Winnipeg. The document provides a framework for understanding and collaboratively addressing health equity by introducing principles, strategies, and suggested areas for action.
Tackling the wider determinants of health and health inequalities: evidence from systematic reviews
This review-of-reviews identified 32 recent systematic reviews of interventions aimed at influencing health and health inequalities through the social determinants of health. There was some evidence that housing and work environment interventions have the potential to reduce health “inequalities.”
Une stratégie et des indicateurs pour la surveillance des inégalités sociales de santé au Québec
This report proposes a strategy, indicators, and tools for measuring inequalities in order to initiate monitoring of social inequalities in health in Quebec.
Large forces affecting health equity: How health equity is affected by societal shifts such as hom
Dr. Lynn McIntyre, Professor and CIHR Chair in Gender and Health, University of Calgary and President of the Canadian Public Health Association, shows how financial policy affects people’s ability to purchase nutritious food.