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Determining Health: Decent work issue brief
This brand new 2022 practice brief describes decent work as a determinant of health. It provides an overview of the peer-reviewed literature, policy documents and other grey literature to illustrate the health impacts of employment and working conditions on workers and populations in Canada.
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Equity in Action
The "Equity in Action" project highlights initiatives that have successfully promoted health equity in pandemic planning, response, and recovery. This repository lifts the voices of community leaders as a source of evidence to facilitate learning and connection among Public Health practitioners in Canada.
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COVID-19 Conversation Series: Recovery and regeneration in the face of overlapping crises
In this conversation series we explore listening, leading, recognizing systems of power and ways in which courage and hope are fostered for equitable, regenerative public health systems. The conversations will create space for collective healing and recovery.
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Organizational Capacity for Health Equity Action Initiative: A brief description
This document provides an overview of the NCCDH’s Organizational Capacity for Health Equity Action Initiative (OCI), a project to help organizations develop their capacity for health equity action by offering relevant frameworks, strategies and organizational conditions for this work.
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Climate change resilience part 1: COVID-19 underscores the need to address inequity and transform systems
This practice brief argues that our collective experience of the COVID-19 pandemic underscores the need for urgent and revised public health action to address climate change.
Movement-building as intersectoral action to achieve health equity
This practice brief by Knowledge Translation Specialist Dianne Oickle provides an overview of movement-building as intersectoral action to achieve health equity. It identifies core elements and strategies, and what this approach means for public health efforts in social justice and policy change.
Beginning from within: Promoting the health of trans, Two-Spirit and/or gender-diverse youth
In this framework description, Dr. Julie James discusses the importance of engaging with, and following the lead of, trans and gender-diverse youth. She presents a framework her team developed that can be used to guide public health action to shift personal and organizational knowledge, attitudes and approaches; it can also be used to provide competent services to trans, Two-Spirit and/or gender diverse youth.
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About NCCPH
The six National Collaborating Centres (NCCs) for Public Health promote and improve the use of scientific research and other knowledge to strengthen public health practices and policies in Canada.