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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
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
Leveraging opportunities for public health action to advance health equity
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Leveraging opportunities for public health action to advance health equity
June 18, 2014 1-2:30 EDT The National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health has completed an environmental scan to understand the current state of public health action on health equity across Canada and, specifically, any key changes that have taken place since a 2010 scan. The 2010 environmental scan assessed public health practices, barriers, and […]
Author: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health
Published: June 5, 2014
Boosting momentum: Applying knowledge to advance health equity
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Boosting momentum: Applying knowledge to advance health equity
This report is a follow-up to the NCCDH’s 2010 environmental scan, Integrating social determinants of health and health equity into Canadian public health practice. It is based on a literature review, focus groups and key informants, and identifies ways that the context and practice of health equity work in the public health domain have changed since 2010.
Author: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health
Published: 2014
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