Resource Type: Case Study

Case Study

Learning from Practice: Joint Action for Equity – Fostering healthy aging through partnerships and social prescribing
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Learning from Practice: Joint Action for Equity – Fostering healthy aging through partnerships and social prescribing
This story from practice outlines how the Community Action and Resources Empowering Seniors (CARES) program worked with community non-profit organizations to prevent frailty and promote health, demonstrating an opportunity to enhance public health partnership. Social prescribing is highlighted as an intervention which supports client-centered action on the social determinants of health.
Author: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health
Published: 2024
Learning from Practice: Joint Action for Equity – Working together to holistically support the underhoused population during COVID-19
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Learning from Practice: Joint Action for Equity – Working together to holistically support the underhoused population during COVID-19
This story outlines how Cool Aid community organization and their partners responded to support people made vulnerable by their housing situation in Victoria, British Columbia during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Equity, community, collaboration, and holistic care were centered. Principles and practices to support improved relationships between community, primary care and public health are highlighted.
Author: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health
Published: 2023
Health and social impacts of long-term evacuation due to natural disasters in First Nations communities: A summary of lessons for public health
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Health and social impacts of long-term evacuation due to natural disasters in First Nations communities: A summary of lessons for public health
This summary document by the National Collaborating Centres for Public Health (NCCPH) describes the Long-Term Evacuees Project. It includes lessons learned from community-based research, as well as implications for public health responses to long-term evacuations due to natural disasters.
Author: National Collaborating Centres for Public Health
Published: 2021
From the floodwaters: Siksika Nation and the Bow River flood – Insights for public health responses to long-term evacuation
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From the floodwaters: Siksika Nation and the Bow River flood – Insights for public health responses to long-term evacuation
This case study by the National Collaborating Centres for Public Health (NCCPH) explores the evacuation of Siksika Nation following the Bow River flood in 2013. It includes insight into the health and social impacts of the evacuation and the role of public health to support long-term emergency planning and recovery.
Author: National Collaborating Centres for Public Health
Published: 2021
The Toronto Indigenous Health Advisory Circle (TIHAC): Advancing self-determined Indigenous health
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The Toronto Indigenous Health Advisory Circle (TIHAC): Advancing self-determined Indigenous health
This case story from the Toronto Indigenous Health Advisory Circle (TIHAC), the NCCDH and Muskrat Media describes the formation of TIHAC and the creation of the first self-determined Indigenous health strategy in Canada. It outlines the relationships, conditions and decisions that led to the creation of a strong strategy for Toronto.
Author: Toronto Indigenous Health Advisory Circle, Centre de collaboration nationale des déterminants de la santé, MUSKRAT Media
Published: 2019
Collective impact and public health: An old/new approach — Stories of two Canadian initiatives
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Collective impact and public health: An old/new approach — Stories of two Canadian initiatives
A groundswell of interest has emerged recently in using collective impact (CI) to tackle entrenched social problems. This blended case story describes two CI initiatives in which public health is significantly involved: London Ontario’s Child & Youth Network and The Child & Youth Health Network on Vancouver Island.
Author: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health
Published: 2017
Learning from Practice: Advocacy for health equity – Environmental racism
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Learning from Practice: Advocacy for health equity – Environmental racism
This paper highlights the experience of the Nova Scotia-based Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities and Community Health (ENRICH) project in advocating against environmental racism that impacts Mi’kmaq and African-Canadian communities.
Author: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health
Published: 2017
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