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Building a business case for preventive home visiting for pregnant women and mothers of young child
This rapid review uses evidence from research reviews to develop a business case for home visiting programs in Canada.
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Understanding racism
Aboriginal peoples in Canada experience several forms of racism, which negatively affect all aspects of their lives and well-being. This paper—which is an exploration of the concept of race, its history and contexts—is the first of three papers that will discuss forms of racism within societies.
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Public Health Speaks: Tuberculosis and the social determinants of health
Public health practitioners discuss strategies to address the social determinants of tuberculosis.
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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.
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A conceptual framework for action on the social determinants of health
This paper introduces the conceptual framework that guides the work of the WHO’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. The document describes how the framework came about, its two “levels of causation’ of health inequities, and the “policy directions” it points to.
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Public Health Speaks: Organizational standards as a promising practice for health equity
Four public health experts talk about how both having organizational standards, and going through a process of developing standards, can build an organization’s capacity to advance health equity.
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What contributes to successful public health leadership for health equity? An appreciative inquiry
This project set out to identify factors or conditions that influence effective public health leadership to improve health equity. Interviews were conducted with 14 Canadian public health leaders and themes were identified using an appreciative inquiry method.
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Let’s Talk: Public health roles for improving health equity
The four public health roles is a framework that can help organizations make health equity a strategic focus of their governance, policies, and partnerships.
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Let’s Talk: Universal and targeted approaches to health equity
Research indicates that interventions designed to close the gap between the most and least healthy can unwittingly result in a wider gap. This resource is a condensed guide to the differences, strengths and challenges of targeted, proportionate and universal approaches to improving health equity.
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The Chief Public Health Officer’s report on the state of public health in Canada
The fifth, theme-based, annual report published by the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada focuses on sex-and gender-rooted health inequalities and what has been done and what can be done to address them.