This document summarizes an online conversation—hosted by the NCCDH in 2013— about developing the skills and competencies needed by public health staff, and the organizational systems that need to be in place, to support health equity work.
This document applies common messaging guidelines to the challenge of communicating the connection between income inequality and health inequality. The guidelines were published by the Canadian Council on the Social Determinants of 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.
The author of this report analyzed routinely collected health administrative data to re-examine the health and social outcomes/effects of a guaranteed annual income experiment carried out in Dauphin, Manitoba in the mid-1970s.
This report lays the foundation for a Health Equity Action Plan for the city of Winnipeg. The document provides a framework for understanding and collaboratively addressing health equity by introducing principles, strategies, and suggested areas for action.
This article identifies challenges of putting equity-focused research into practice and how community based participatory research (CBPR) can address these challenges. CBPR involves researchers working with communities on issues important to them, and to improve health and eliminate health disparities.
This report examines 13 programs or policies that have had some success in reducing health inequalities in Canada. All of the selected interventions set out to reduce health inequities through the social determinants of health, and they were evaluated using current medical evidence-based standards.
This review-of-reviews identified 32 recent systematic reviews of interventions aimed at influencing health and health inequalities through the social determinants of health. There was some evidence that housing and work environment interventions have the potential to reduce health “inequalities.”
The authors of this article set out to help strengthen the capacity of the public health sector to develop, implement and sustain equity-focused population health initiatives by identifying what optimal organizational capacity entails.
This 11-page document defines population health advocacy and describes how it fits within Vancouver Coastal Health’s strategic approach. A number of tools and references for planning and implementing advocacy action are included.
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