This guide was designed to support sex- and gender-based analysis (SGBA) in planning health programs, developing health policies and conducting research. SGBA identifies health inequities arising from gender relations and the interaction of gender with other social factors.
This document offers practical guidance for developing effective, targeted messages on how everyday factors impact health. It offers language and tool options for different audience segments.
This report proposes a strategy, indicators, and tools for measuring inequalities in order to initiate monitoring of social inequalities in health in Quebec.
This guide is designed to help public health practitioners choose or adapt a community engagement framework that focuses on achieving greater health equity through the social determinants of health.
This 2010 policy discussion paper was produced by the Canadian Nurses Association following a review of their social justice initiative. The resource includes an updated version of the Social Justice Gauge, a tool to assess programs, policies, and products.
This rapid review uses evidence from research reviews to develop a business case for home visiting programs in Canada.
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.
Public health practitioners discuss strategies to address the social determinants of tuberculosis.
This condensed guide describes how public health works at three levels—downstream, midstream, and upstream—to improve everyone’s chance for good health. It provides definitions, examples and strategies to help practitioners and decision makers think about, and work with, the upstream determinants of health.
This paper highlights the interconnectedness between social determinants and Indigenous peoples’ health. The authors argue that efforts to reduce current health inequities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples must attend not only to the symptoms of ill health, but also to the factors that underlie ill health.
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