This webinar will explore the connections between food systems and health inequities and provide action steps for the public health community to advance food justice. Through an overview of core concepts and illustrative examples, attendees will be equipped with a deeper understanding of food systems and strategies to advance food justice at different scales.
This curated resource list highlights resources that support a broad understanding of how various factors that influence health have been conceptualized. The selected documents complement the NCCDH resource Let’s Talk: Determinants of health.
This web-based course for the public health workforce, is hosted by the National Association of County and City Health Officials and explores the underlying causes of social injustice and health inequity, and public health’s role in building healthier communities by addressing those root causes.
This issue brief describes key concepts needed to understand what food systems are and why they matter for public health in the Canadian context. Drawing on peer-reviewed and grey literature, it further explains how food systems impact health inequities.
Informed by conversations with diverse thought leaders, as well as relevant peer-reviewed and grey literature, this Let’s Talk summarizes current thinking about the social, ecological and structural determinants of health. A tree graphic illustrates the underlying drivers of health inequities and supports reflective, action-focused discussion with public health professionals, policy makers and partners.
The report encourages public health organizations and agencies to strengthen integration of climate change mitigation strategies into their work. Case studies are provided that tell the story of local public health organizations and agencies collaborating with municipalities and community groups to inspire and guide public health action.
This global report defines key concepts, brings together literature and data on the health status and determinants of health for migrants and refugees, and lays out a framework for essential, urgent action for shared health.
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 case study highlights the experience of the Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre in supporting nail technicians in the Greater Toronto Area to build community and worker power to advance equity.
This installment of the Let’s Talk series explores foundational principles of inclusive health equity language, how power and culture are baked into language, and terminology options that are inclusive and anti-stigmatizing.
