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Determining Health: Migrant health issue brief

Immigration status is a significant yet often overlooked determinant of health. This issue brief outlines the health and health equity impacts of immigration status for migrants in Canada to build understanding and guide public health planning, policy and action.

The effects of the housing shortage on Indigenous Peoples in Canada

This report from the House of Commons Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs analyzes the housing crisis facing Indigenous Peoples in Canada, including its physical and mental health impacts. The report presents 20 recommendations to address systemic inequities and support long-term, sustainable and self-determined housing solutions.

Determining Health: Food justice practice brief

This practice brief describes key dimensions of and action on food justice as a public health priority. It provides a framework of eight principles of food justice, with a description and concrete actions for each, to guide practice.

Let’s Talk: Community organizing

To influence the structural and social determinants of health and advance health equity, public health must support power building in communities facing inequities. This Let’s Talk introduces community organizing as an effective and critical tool for building community power.

Community organizing and public health: A rapid review

Community organizing can advance health equity and influence the social and structural determinants of health. This rapid review uncovers the benefits, challenges and outcomes of public health partnering with community-organizing groups and/or applying community-organizing methods.

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