This primer outlines how municipal and provincial governments can advance decriminalization of drug possession for personal use as part of a broader strategy to help protect the health and safety of people who use drugs in their communities.
This evaluation guide developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada provides practical tools and strategies to implement and measure progress of community-based programs designed to prevent substance-related harms among youth.
This NCCDH review of the evidence describes how hazardous work and precarious employment conditions impact health inequities in Canada. It illustrates why decent work is a solution to these inequities and is a vital domain for public health action.
Intersectionality moves us from one dimensional understandings of discrimination and marginalization to the multifaceted roots of injustice. This Let’s Talk defines intersectionality and what it means for public health. It helps readers avoid flattening or whitening intersectionality and instead use it for transformative change.
The report by Généreux et al. explores interventions for strengthening sense of coherence, a protective factor in stressful events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, to improve individual and community adaptability.
This report by the Samji et al. summarizes evidence on the effects that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the social determinants of health and wellbeing of young adults in British Columbia.
This journal article by Hassen discusses three considerations for equitable built environment interventions in the context of social distancing and pandemic related restrictions.
This report by A Way Home Canada and the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness summarizes survey data from workers in the youth-serving sector across Canada on youth homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This report chapter from the National Advisory Council on Poverty describes the impact of COVID-19 on people living in poverty in Canada, including inadequacy of benefits, challenges working in caring professions, inadequacy of long term care, housing and homelessness.
This report from Migrant Workers Alliance for Change describes the impact of Canada’s immigration system, temporary work programs, and the agri-food industry on migrant workers’ health during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also includes calls to action to address the determinants of health that disproportionately harm migrant workers.
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