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Common agenda for public health action on health equity
This paper identifies eight common priorities of public health stakeholders who are working to improve the social determinants of health and health equity.
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Public Health Speaks: Intersectionality and health equity
Public health practitioners and researchers discuss the application of intersectionality in social determinants of health and health equity practice, policy and research.
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Multiple actors bringing diverse knowledge to improve health equity: Dialogue proceedings
These proceedings summarize an open space forum held in Quebec City in 2015. The event explored the question: “What are the opportunities to reduce social inequities in health if we bring together knowledge gathered from experience, intervention, research, and decision-making?”
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What is social media, and how can it support knowledge exchange on the social determinants of health
This document summarizes an online conversation—hosted by the NCCDH in 2013— about the use of social media in public health.
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Let’s Talk: Advocacy and health equity
This addition to the NCCDH’s “Let’s Talk” series discusses advocacy within public health. Attention is brought to the shift towards advocacy in upstream policy and structural change. Discussion questions are included to help public health staff examine their work.
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Equity-integrated population health status reporting: Action framework
This resource presents an accessible action framework for those directly engaged in creating community health status reports, as well as those interested in learning how to use population health status reporting to drive action to improve health equity.
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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.
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Public Health Speaks: Public Health Roles for Improving Health Equity
This document summarizes an online conversation—hosted by the NCCDH in 2013— about the use and value of a four-role model for public health action to improve health equity.
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Public Health Speaks: Where are the resources to “move upstream” in Public Health work?
This document summarizes an online conversation—hosted by the NCCDH in 2014— about finding resources to move public health work upstream.
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Public Health Speaks: Public health leadership for health equity
This document summarizes an online conversation hosted by the NCCDH in 2013 about public health leadership for health equity.