This 11-page document defines population health advocacy and describes how it fits within Vancouver Coastal Health’s strategic approach. A number of tools and references for planning and implementing advocacy action are included.
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.
Dr. Lynn McIntyre, Professor and CIHR Chair in Gender and Health, University of Calgary and President of the Canadian Public Health Association, shows how financial policy affects people’s ability to purchase nutritious food.
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.
The Rio Declaration is a call by the World Health Organization to end health inequities world-wide. Published in October, 2011, it outlines a global political commitment to eliminate health inequities and the underlying social conditions that cause them.
Do you want to monitor or measure inequalities in health in your region? This online book from the South East England Public Health Observatory (SEPHO) provides an array of methods to monitor and measure inequalities at a local level.
This report describes and compares the institutionalization of health impact assessment (HIA) in nine middle- and high-income countries, and within the European Union, with an eye to identifying the factors that enhance effective and wide-spread implementation of HIA.
This report focuses on health equity work in francophone countries and communities. It proposes “bold, tenacious, and concerted actions” (M. Marmot), including a road map for reducing social inequalities in health. This resource is available in French only.
This collective work is a multidisciplinary overview meant to help readers better understand how social inequalities in health are produced, and the theoretical, methodological, and practical means available to us to study and alleviate them. This resource is available in French only.
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