This series of five short videos from the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) is designed to help public health inspectors (aka environmental health officers) provide basic information on how the social determinants of health and health equity apply to environmental public health practice.
The fourth edition of Health Promotion in Canada builds on the historical, theoretical and practice contexts of the first three versions with new themes on how intersectionality, anti-racism, participatory approaches, digital media, intervention research, critical reflection and ecological perspectives relate to health promotion.
This paper from the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ) reviews comprehensive approaches to reducing health inequities, as well as policy interventions on specific determinants of health implemented in Quebec, Canada, Europe and elsewhere in the world.
The British Columbia Centre for Disease Control’s Healthy Built Environment Linkages Toolkit synthesizes current research on five core “features” of the built environment and addresses how these features influence population health.
This user guide describes a set of indicators that can be used to assess and demonstrate actions being taken by public health organizations in working towards health equity.
The Canadian Institute for Child Health (CICH) profile offers data from over 400 indicators on the health and well-being of Canadian children and youth. New modules on Indigenous children/youth and health/development in the early years consolidate indicators that can be used to support strategies, draw attention to health inequities and develop partnerships that serve the children of Canada, Indigenous and settler alike.
This report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation aims to stimulate discussion and promote greater consensus about the meaning of health equity and the implications for action.
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 resource (in English) from the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control offers tools, information and practice guidance to support environmental public health (EPH) practitioners as they take action on health equity.
This series of interactive modules offered through Public Health Ontario introduces the field of health promotion in Canada.
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