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Promoting the health and well-being of members of the 2SLGBTQ+ French-speaking community, through community engagement and a diagnostic tool.
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Conception et aménagement de l’espace public et iniquités de genre : effets sur la santé des femmes
Increase use and equitable enjoyment of public spaces, to reduce gender inequities rooted in the built environment.
Still swimming against the tide? A follow-up study to explore Ontario-based social determinants of health public health nurses’ experiences in role enactment
This resource explores the role of the social determinants of health public health nurse in Ontario since 2015. The findings of this study describe a compelling opportunity for public health units across Canada to enable public health nurses to meaningfully address the structural and social determinants of health and advance health equity.
Measuring what counts: Equity prompts for public health preparedness and resilience
As the spread and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated in Canada and the world, we find ourselves in a cycle of planning, response and recovery. The National Collaborating Centres for Infectious Diseases and Determinants of Health (NCCID and NCCDH, respectively) have responded by reviewing lessons learned and recommendations on health equity from past pandemics in Canada.
Learning from Practice: Implementing health equity frameworks to guide health equity action
This resource, based on interviews with practitioners from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, captures practice-based learning that public health can use when co-creating and implementing health equity frameworks and taking other actions to advance health equity.
The employment quality of persons with disabilities: Findings from a national survey
This study finds that workers with disabilities in Canada are roughly twice as likely to be in low-quality employment compared to workers without disabilities. The study contributes to our understanding of inequities in the Canadian labour market and can inform public health action to support decent work for all workers — an important social determinant of health.
Disability—a chronic omission in health equity that must be central to Canada’s post-pandemic recovery
This commentary draws attention to long-standing inequities experienced by people with disabilities in Canada and calls for overhauling how the public health and health care fields define and advance health equity for people with disabilities.
Turning the tide on inequity through systematic equity action-analysis
Public health teams and their partners can use the Systematic Equity Action-Analysis (SEA) framework to reflect on — and improve — how equity is integrated into programs, services, policies, engagement processes and more.
Leadership development to advance health equity: An equity-centered leadership framework
This article presents a leadership for health equity framework that centres concepts of equity, diversity and inclusion. The authors developed this integrated framework to address the limitations of traditional health leadership development programs to better prepare leaders to disrupt root causes of inequities.
Defining equity, its determinants, and the foundations of equity science
Responding to inconsistent and vague interpretations of equity, the authors of this article make a strong case for equity science as a new approach to meaningfully reduce health inequities. This applied science focuses action on what the authors refer to as the determinants of equity.