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Webinar: Intersectionality and health equity: Exploring opportunities for public health practice and policy

This webinar occured in English only. Cliquez ici pour le webinaire en français (13 decembre 2016). Intersectionality is an approach that puts forward the idea that multiple social positions (e.g., age, culture, (dis)ability, ethnicity, indigeneity, gender, immigrant status, race, sexual orientation, social class, and religion) intersect at the level of individual experience to reflect multiple interlocking/intersecting systems

Common agenda for public health action on health equity

This paper identifies eight common priorities of public health stakeholders who are working to improve the social determinants of health and health equity.

Learning from Practice: Advocacy for health equity – Hamilton Public Health Services

This paper highlights the experience of Hamilton Public Health in advocating for the social determinants of health and health equity.

Pathways to health equity and differential outcomes

This report summarizes findings from a report by the World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health examining public health interventions and implementation approaches that address health inequity in multiple countries and contexts.

Key public health resources for advocacy and health equity: A curated list

This curated list points to key resources to support advocacy for health equity by public health practitioners.

Let’s Talk: Advocacy and health equity

This addition to the NCCDH’s “Let’s Talk” series discusses advocacy within public health. Attention is brought to the shift towards advocacy in upstream policy and structural change. Discussion questions are included to help public health staff examine their work.

Public Health Speaks: Public Health Roles for Improving Health Equity

This document summarizes an online conversation—hosted by the NCCDH in 2013— about the use and value of a four-role model for public health action to improve health equity.

Public Health Speaks: Where are the resources to “move upstream” in Public Health work?

This document summarizes an online conversation—hosted by the NCCDH in 2014— about finding resources to move public health work upstream.

Learning from practice: Equity in influenza Prevention in Saskatoon

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.

Learning from practice: Equity in influenza prevention in Manitoba

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.

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