In this memorandum to the Québec Government (in French only), Montreal and Montérégie’s public health directors advocate for changes to provincial employment legislation that could have deleterious effects on the health of social assistance recipients in their region.
Rooted in the premise that everyone deserves a life out of poverty, this compendium of writings offers considerations for policy makers and governments to inform next steps in testing basic income and rethinking welfare in Ontario.
This paper highlights the experience of the non-profit group Generation Squeeze in advocating for increased investment in people in their 20s, 30s and 40s and their children.
This paper highlights the experience of Hamilton Public Health in advocating for the social determinants of health and health equity.
This series of evidence reports describes practical, local actions to tackle health inequalities through the social determinants of health. It provides evidence, practical pointers and case studies that can help health system employees achieve key policy objectives in Fair society healthy lives (the 2010 Marmot Review ).
This report is a roadmap for the province to move towards economic and social inclusion for all. It builds on the momentum of New Brunswick’s first poverty reduction plan launched in 2009, and presents the second phase of the province’s planning, for 2014-19.
A brief video describing how public policy can support healthy living, told through the stories of two low-income mothers in Vancouver.
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.”
Liberating structures are processes that “include and unleash everyone.” At the NCCDH, we have found these processes to be of great benefit in fostering people’s commitment and energy, and bringing everyone into the work that will lead us to greater health equity.
Confounded by how to address the upstream causes of health inequities within your practice? NACCHO’s Handbook for action provides public health practitioners with the concepts, methods and tools to address the root causes of health inequities.
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