This document summarizes results from a 2023–2024 survey of Ontario public health unit practices to promote healthy housing. Highlights of survey results are presented alongside public health roles and promising practices to address inadequate and unhealthy housing conditions as a determinant of health and key driver of health inequity.
Please join us for a 3-part network conversation about becoming a network-of-networks to support intersectoral action and nurture an eco-social wellbeing movement in Canada.
We will explore: How can a network of networks contribute to collaborative change making and learning? How does this relate to creating a wellbeing society as a shared purpose? How do we bridge from local to national and back to local? How do we incorporate this into our theory of change?
Many health policies are urban-centric, focused on cost-effective considerations, and do not address inequities faced by rural communities. This commentary proposes a framework to assist public health practitioners, policy-, and decision-makers to consider and build health equity in rural communities in Canada.
This 2020 publication from the American Public Health Association examines the relationships and connections between housing, health equity and health outcomes, framed within the broader context of structural racism and its effects on neighborhood segregation, access to health-generating resources and wealth accumulation.
This document from the Institut national de santé publique du Québec describes the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Indigenous Peoples due to socioeconomic inequities experienced by their communities.
This report from the Institut national de santé publique du Québec describes the influence of housing as a social determinant of risk and impact due to COVID-19.
This report from l’Association pour la santé publique du Québec describes the inequitable vulnerability of women to impacts of the COVID-19 crisis.
This policy statement by the American Public Health Association (APHA) describes the historical roots and research behind law enforcement violence against people of colour. The statement positions this as an urgent and longstanding public health issue.
This commentary article from Think Global Health describes COVID-19 as a syndemic related to increased chronic disease risk due to inequitable income policies.
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