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Equity in environmental health practice: Findings of a pilot study
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Equity in environmental health practice: Findings of a pilot study
Public health inspectors (PHIs) are not often part of the dialogue about social determinants of health (SDH) and health equity. This report summarizes two focus groups with PHIs exploring how they experience SDH and health inequities in their practice.
Author: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health and National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Heath
Published: 2015
An environmental scan and assessment of online learning opportunities
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An environmental scan and assessment of online learning opportunities
In 2013, the NCCDH set out to identify and assess good-quality online learning courses on the topics of the social determinants of health and health equity (in both English and French) for public health staff. This report describes our purpose, methodology and results.
Author: Jacques LeCavalier
Published: 2015
Public Health Speaks: The Power of People and Systems
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Public Health Speaks: The Power of People and Systems
This document summarizes an online conversation—hosted by the NCCDH in 2013— about developing the skills and competencies needed by public health staff, and the organizational systems that need to be in place, to support health equity work.
Author: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health
Published: 2014
Communicating the social determinants of health: Income Inequality and Health
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Communicating the social determinants of health: Income Inequality and Health
This document applies common messaging guidelines to the challenge of communicating the connection between income inequality and health inequality. The guidelines were published by the Canadian Council on the Social Determinants of Health.
Author: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health & Canadian Public Health Association
Published: 2014
Social Media in Public Health
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Social Media in Public Health
This “briefing note” presents the mixed evidence about the effectiveness of using social media to change people’s health-related behaviours. In presents the evidence on best practices in social media messaging whether social media is a more equitable way to reach all population groups.
Author: Bruce Newbold
Published: 2015
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
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