This curated list of resources for environmental health practitioners provides concrete information on addressing the social determinants of health (SDH) and health equity.
A framework and user guide have been developed for environmental public health staff, and other public health agencies or departments that deal with environmental health issues, to help identify potential actions on the social determinants of health and health equity.
This paper highlights the experience of Hamilton Public Health in advocating for the social determinants of health and health equity.
Public health practitioners and researchers discuss the application of intersectionality in social determinants of health and health equity practice, policy and research.
These proceedings summarize an open space forum held in Quebec City in 2015. The event explored the question: “What are the opportunities to reduce social inequities in health if we bring together knowledge gathered from experience, intervention, research, and decision-making?”
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.
This resource presents an accessible action framework for those directly engaged in creating community health status reports, as well as those interested in learning how to use population health status reporting to drive action to improve health equity.
Public health inspectors (PHIs) are not often part of the dialogue about social determinants of health (SDH) and health equity. This report summarizes two focus groups with PHIs exploring how they experience SDH and health inequities in their practice.
This “briefing note” presents the mixed evidence about the effectiveness of using social media to change people’s health-related behaviours. In presents the evidence on best practices in social media messaging whether social media is a more equitable way to reach all population groups.
This report, a joint project of the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health and the Community Health Nurses of Canada, investigated leadership development opportunities to build capacity for health equity work among public health nurses. It consists of a literature scan and survey of community health nurses in leadership positions.
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