First in a series of five policy briefs describing practical actions to address inequities in health facing Europe, The equity action spectrum describes a framework that can be used by regions to develop comprehensive and systematic ways to address inequities in health.
This report examines 13 programs or policies that have had some success in reducing health inequalities in Canada. All of the selected interventions set out to reduce health inequities through the social determinants of health, and they were evaluated using current medical evidence-based standards.
In this video, public health decision-makers and researchers describe “targeted universalism” as an approach to reducing health inequities across the entire population.
In this video, public health decision-makers and researchers describe how data can be used to deliberately uncover the health equity and the social determinants of health picture in communities.
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 report proposes a strategy, indicators, and tools for measuring inequalities in order to initiate monitoring of social inequalities in health in Quebec.
This guide offers ideas—with stories to illustrate— for how public health can work with communities to build organizational capacity, develop partnerships and coalitions, and make the case for health equity.
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.
This series of practice examples describes how three public health units use a targeting within universalism approach to advance health equity.
