Four public health experts talk about how both having organizational standards, and going through a process of developing standards, can build an organization’s capacity to advance health equity.
This project set out to identify factors or conditions that influence effective public health leadership to improve health equity. Interviews were conducted with 14 Canadian public health leaders and themes were identified using an appreciative inquiry method.
Interested in collaborating with partners in the healthcare system to improve health equity? This 2013 report from the United Kingdom describes practical ways to help alleviate inequalities in health status through clinical practice.
Interested in learning about how Canadian doctors are applying a health equity lens to clinical care? This 2013 report from the Canadian Medical Association describes levers within physicians’ practice to help alleviate inequities in their patients’ health status, and potential areas for collaboration with the public health community.
Are you working with your community? Find guidance about how to design community engagement processes and assess impact.
The four public health roles is a framework that can help organizations make health equity a strategic focus of their governance, policies, and partnerships.
While research is growing about effective ways to improve health equity, action lags behind. This resource describes six knowledge to action models that can help you translate evidence in a way that promotes and supports action on the social determinants of health.
Research indicates that interventions designed to close the gap between the most and least healthy can unwittingly result in a wider gap. This resource is a condensed guide to the differences, strengths and challenges of targeted, proportionate and universal approaches to improving health equity.
Community-based, participatory research is a change strategy that involves citizens and researchers, equitably. This report outlines eight promising practices drawn from American experiences, presents six case studies, and directs the reader to dozens of tools and resources.
How do you communicate effectively about the social determinants of health? This report—the product of four years of extensive market research—answers this question in the context of the United States’ polarized political landscape.
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