The author of this report analyzed routinely collected health administrative data to re-examine the health and social outcomes/effects of a guaranteed annual income experiment carried out in Dauphin, Manitoba in the mid-1970s.
This report lays the foundation for a Health Equity Action Plan for the city of Winnipeg. The document provides a framework for understanding and collaboratively addressing health equity by introducing principles, strategies, and suggested areas for action.
The authors of this document analysed the application of health equity assessment tools (HEATs) in Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and Canada to identify facilitators and barriers to success.
This is the story of Saskatoon Health Region’s (SHR) work to improve immunization rates and reduce the spread of influenza in Saskatoon’s six core neighbourhoods. SHR’s existing strong socio-economic and health disparities data made it possible to prioritize these core neighbourhoods for H1N1 vaccination programs.
This story describes how Manitoba Health, Healthy Living and Seniors prioritized Aboriginal peoples in its response to the 2009-10 H1N1 influenza pandemic, and used this experience to further develop influenza prevention and immunization equity measures.
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 article identifies challenges of putting equity-focused research into practice and how community based participatory research (CBPR) can address these challenges. CBPR involves researchers working with communities on issues important to them, and to improve health and eliminate health disparities.
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 share their understanding of health equity and the social determinants of health.
This review-of-reviews identified 32 recent systematic reviews of interventions aimed at influencing health and health inequalities through the social determinants of health. There was some evidence that housing and work environment interventions have the potential to reduce health “inequalities.”
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