This policy statement by the Canadian Public Health Association describes a public health approach to substance use based on 10 principles that are evidence informed, person centred, and rooted in social justice and health equity values.
This 2024 practice brief describes equity-centred public health roles and three essential approaches for addressing the urgent issue of precarious employment and hazardous working conditions in Canada.
This episode companion document provides a new way to engage with the Mind the Disruption podcast. It includes a written transcript of Season 1, Episode 5 “Disrupting food insecurity & fat phobia” with key quotes and related resources to prompt discussion, reflection and action.
This report explores the profound health challenges faced by British Columbia food service workers during extreme weather events. Public health can use this information to set priorities, identify gaps and make decisions to address the health equity impacts of climate change and precarious employment.
This study by Kinitz et al. reports that lesbian, gay and bisexual workers are more likely to be precariously employed in Canada. The public health community has a role to advance decent work — an important social determinant of health — for all workers, including 2SLGBTQI+ workers.
This article employs the metaphor that settler colonialism functions as a net with innumerable “colonial knots” that Indigenous Peoples in Canada are trapped within and that prevent them from being able to exercise self-determination and sovereignty. The authors propose that the work of health leaders to dismantle Indigenous-specific racism, White supremacy and settler colonialism requires dedicated, everyday efforts to “untie colonial knots.”
This story from practice outlines how the Community Action and Resources Empowering Seniors (CARES) program worked with community non-profit organizations to prevent frailty and promote health, demonstrating an opportunity to enhance public health partnership. Social prescribing is highlighted as an intervention which supports client-centered action on the social determinants of health.
This episode companion document provides a new way to engage with the Mind the Disruption podcast. It includes a written transcript of Season 1, Episode 4 “Disrupting migrant work” with key quotes and related resources to prompt discussion, reflection and action.
The report encourages public health organizations and agencies to strengthen integration of climate change mitigation strategies into their work. Case studies are provided that tell the story of local public health organizations and agencies collaborating with municipalities and community groups to inspire and guide public health action.
How do you make health equity explicit in your work? This paper describes the process of developing public health personnel training for embedding health equity in emergency preparedness processes and documents.
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