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Toward a safe and healthy place to call home

This document summarizes results from a 2023–2024 survey of Ontario public health unit practices to promote healthy housing. Highlights of survey results are presented alongside public health roles and promising practices to address inadequate and unhealthy housing conditions as a determinant of health and key driver of health inequity.

Determining Health: Migrant health issue brief

Immigration status is a significant yet often overlooked determinant of health. This issue brief outlines the health and health equity impacts of immigration status for migrants in Canada to build understanding and guide public health planning, policy and action.

Determining Health: Food justice practice brief

This practice brief describes key dimensions of and action on food justice as a public health priority. It provides a framework of eight principles of food justice, with a description and concrete actions for each, to guide practice.