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Determining Health: Decent work practice brief
This 2024 practice brief describes equity-centred public health roles and three essential approaches for addressing the urgent issue of precarious employment and hazardous working conditions in Canada.
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Learning from Practice
Our Learning from Practice series continues with 4 new case studies! These resources provide practical examples of equity-driven action on the structural and social determinants of health. Use these resources to guide public health practice, policy, and decision making.
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Mind the Disruption: An NCCDH Project
On Mind the Disruption, the new NCCDH podcast, you’ll hear the stories of people who have disrupted the usual ways of doing things in their organizations, communities, and society in pursuit of better health for all.
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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.
Latest Blog Post
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.
Featured Resource
Health equity frameworks as a tool to support public health action: A rapid review of the literature
This NCCDH review of the literature discusses health equity frameworks that can be used to advance equity in public health contexts. Readers are invited to consider how frameworks, and the ways we work together to create or use them, can break down systems of oppression.
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.