Drawing on the findings of a newly released NCCDH environmental scan, this webinar will explore current public health actions, key challenges, and practical opportunities to address the structural determinants of health and advance health equity action from where you are.
The NCCDH’s fourth environmental scan explores the current experiences and actions of the Canadian public health community with regard to addressing the structural determinants of health, and analyzes opportunities for taking an intersectional, structural approach to health equity.
This resource shares results of a dialogue convened with population and public health and social science researchers to explore how research can contribute to understanding and acting on the structural and social determinants of health. The overarching message from participants is the need for transformative change in the way public health research is done.
This Let’s Talk resource uses a stream analogy to explore different levels of public health action to advance health equity. Through descriptions of upstream, midstream and downstream approaches and practice examples, it encourages public health practitioners, decision-makers and policy-makers to work against the current and shift efforts upstream to address the structural and social determinants of health.
Growing momentum around well-being as a shared policy goal provides opportunities for public health to leverage well-being approaches to advance population health, health equity and planetary health for current and future generations, and to share public health expertise in support of well-being initiatives.
Immigration status is a significant yet often overlooked determinant of health. This issue brief outlines the health and health equity impacts of immigration status for migrants in Canada to build understanding and guide public health planning, policy and action.
This online course from the Black Health Education Collaborative addresses critical gaps in medical and public health education and training on anti-Black racism. Through eight interactive modules, it supports learners to deepen their understanding of anti-Black racism and identify solutions to address the health inequities experienced by Black people and communities in Canada.
To influence the structural and social determinants of health and advance health equity, public health must support power building in communities facing inequities. This Let’s Talk introduces community organizing as an effective and critical tool for building community power.
Community organizing can advance health equity and influence the social and structural determinants of health. This rapid review uncovers the benefits, challenges and outcomes of public health partnering with community-organizing groups and/or applying community-organizing methods.
What are the factors that influence health? And, what are the opportunities for integrated, networked public health action at multiple levels?
In this webinar, Pemma Muzumdar and Jonathan Heller, authors of “Let’s Talk: Determinants of Health”, will explore these questions and more, and reflect on the wider forces and systems that interact with the conditions of daily life.
