Resource Type: Journal Article

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Racism, power, and health equity: The case of tenant organizing

Based on interviews with tenants who have been racially and economically marginalized and who are organizing to build power, this article makes the case that community organizing contributes to improved housing conditions, leading to healthier and more equitable communities.
Author: Michener, J.
Published: 2023
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Community organizing and public health: A rapid review

Community organizing can advance health equity and influence the social and structural determinants of health. This rapid review uncovers the benefits, challenges and outcomes of public health partnering with community-organizing groups and/or applying community-organizing methods.
Author: Jimenez, C. & Heller, J.
Published: 2025
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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.
Author: Shahidi, F. V., Jetha, A., Kristman, V., Smith, P. M., & Gignac, M. A.
Published: 2023
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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.
Author: Corbie, G., Brandert, K., Fernandez, C. S. P., & Noble, C. C.
Published: 2022
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Keeping it political and powerful: Defining the structural determinants of health

Drawing from a review of social and political theories, this paper provides a refined, clear and practical definition of the structural determinants of health. The authors make the case that interventions to address the social and structural determinants of health differ because interventions in the latter shift power relations.
Author: Heller, J., Givens, M., Johnson, S., & Kindig, D.
Published: 2024
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Towards untying colonial knots in Canadian health systems: A net metaphor for settler-colonialism

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.”
Author: Jongbloed, K., Hendry, J., Behn Smith, D., & Gallagher Kwunuhmen, J.
Published: 2023
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