Let’s Talk: Public health roles for improving health equity
The four public health roles is a framework that can help organizations make health equity a strategic focus of their governance, policies, and partnerships.
Modify and orient interventions
The Community Tool Box
Find resources and connect with others working in health promotion on The Community Tool Box. This is a website with more than 7,000 pages of practical guidance about how to engage with your community to create positive change and improve health and well-being.
Critical examination of knowledge-to-action models and implications for promoting health equity
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.
Let’s Talk: Universal and targeted approaches to health equity
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: A strategy for building healthy communities and promoting he
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.
Exploring action on the social determinants of health in Canada’s health regions
This Master of Public Administration thesis examines over 2,000 Canadian interventions that address one or more social determinants of health. The author examines the interventions using health equity and structural lenses.
Integrating social determinants of health and health equity into Canadian public health practice
This analysis informs the priorities and activities of the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health.