Resource Type: Case Study

Case Study

Learning from Practice: Advocacy for health equity – Food security
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Learning from Practice: Advocacy for health equity – Food security
This paper discusses advocacy for food security based on the experiences of the Ontario Association of Public Health Nutrition Professionals and Food Secure Canada. It highlights the application of a range of public health advocacy roles.
Author: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health
Published: 2017
Learning to work differently: Implementing Ontario’s SDOH Public Health Nurse Initiative
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Learning to work differently: Implementing Ontario’s SDOH Public Health Nurse Initiative
This case study explores the development and implementation of social determinant of health public health nurse (SDH PHN) positions across Ontario’s 36 public health agencies. The report explores the supports and barriers to implementing equity-focused positions to improve public health organization capacity to act on SDH and advance health equity. This is one of a series of case studies about leadership for health equity.
Author: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health
Published: 2015
Learning from practice:  Equity in influenza Prevention in Saskatoon
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Learning from practice:  Equity in influenza Prevention in Saskatoon
This is the story of Saskatoon Health Region’s (SHR) work to improve immunization rates and reduce the spread of influenza in Saskatoon’s six core neighbourhoods. SHR’s existing strong socio-economic and health disparities data made it possible to prioritize these core neighbourhoods for H1N1 vaccination programs.
Author: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health
Published: 2015
Learning from practice:  Equity in influenza prevention in Manitoba
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Learning from practice:  Equity in influenza prevention in Manitoba
This story describes how Manitoba Health, Healthy Living and Seniors prioritized Aboriginal peoples in its response to the 2009-10 H1N1 influenza pandemic, and used this experience to further develop influenza prevention and immunization equity measures.
Author: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health
Published: 2015
Fostering health through healing Engaging the community to create a poverty reduction strategy
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Fostering health through healing Engaging the community to create a poverty reduction strategy
This story is about Nunavut’s highly collaborative approach to poverty reduction, and is part of an NCCDH series about leadership for health equity. It discusses the roots of poverty in the territory, and how government and community organizations set out together to build health through poverty reduction.
Author: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health
Published: 2014
Learning from practice: Targeting within universalism
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Learning from practice: Targeting within universalism
This series of practice examples describes how three public health units use a targeting within universalism approach to advance health equity.
Author: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health
Published: 2014
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