This environmental scan from Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami highlights promising practices in suicide prevention across the four regions of Canada’s Arctic that make up Inuit Nunangat. The resource also includes a useful discussion of barriers, gaps and opportunities for future action.
This informative strategy from Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami asks readers to ethically partner with Inuit communities while contributing to climate policy at all levels. It also includes a guide to partnering with Inuit communities.
This report by the Pan American Health Organization’s Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas examines social and economic inequalities in the regions, and considers several related factors such as gender, sexuality, ethnicity, disability, and daily living conditions. An expanded list of the structural drivers of inequities also play prominently into the analysis.
NHS Scotland’s Place Standard Tool is a planning framework to assess the quality of both rural and urban places, designed to support communities, public and private sectors, businesses and citizens to identify improvements to physical and social aspects of the places where people live.
This webinar took place in English. A Public Health and Preventive Medicine (PHPM) webinar hosted by the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health Population health status or community assessment reports represent data that has been collected, analyzed and presented to describe the health of a group, community or geographical area. Population health status reports
In this archived webcast recorded at St. Francis Xavier University on October 10, 2018, Dr. Heather Orpana of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) explores the social determinants of health’s impact on positive mental health for youth.
This report from Northern Health explores how resource extraction and development can influence the social, cultural and economic determinants of health, including the cumulative impact on the health and well-being of individuals and communities.
This user guide describes a set of indicators that can be used to assess and demonstrate actions being taken by public health organizations in working towards health equity.
This third environmental scan from the NCCDH responds to recent concerns about the Canadian health sector’s significant decline in commitment to public health programs and services. The scan explores implications for the public health sector in undertaking effective action to address the social determinants of health and improve health equity in this context.
The Canadian Institute for Child Health (CICH) profile offers data from over 400 indicators on the health and well-being of Canadian children and youth. New modules on Indigenous children/youth and health/development in the early years consolidate indicators that can be used to support strategies, draw attention to health inequities and develop partnerships that serve the children of Canada, Indigenous and settler alike.
