Making the case for health equity: Winnipeg’s experience
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This document is part of the 'Leadership for Health Equity' Series.
As a part of our Public Health leadership initiative, the NCCDH produced a series of case studies profiling instances of leadership to advance health equity in Canada. These documents are learning tools; they are designed to help Public Health staff reflect on the qualities of effective leadership in advancing health equity, as well as on the strategies and conditions that develop and support these qualities in Public Health leaders at all levels.
Public health leaders took advantage of relevant, local and comparative health data – and a possible media interest – to focus regional managers’ attention on the health of people from Winnipeg’s poorest neighbourhoods. They were turning up in city hospitals at two or three – sometimes even five – times the rate of the city’s wealthiest residents. The data provided a catalyst for action that now involves managers from all areas of the health region and is strengthening ties with anti-poverty and other community organizations. Their approach casts a health equity lens over all aspects of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, including health services delivery and long-term care.
Use this resource to
- Use local data to build a case for health equity issues.
- Gain the support of senior health managers on health equity initiatives.
- Find and nurture health equity champions, both internally and externally.
- Create links between evidence on health equity and existing health priorities.
- Support and build on the work of existing community partners.
- Build and maintain motivation.
For more information, download a related presentation, and a summary of the case study methods.
Also in this series:
- Public health leadership to advance health equity: A review summary
- Public health leadership for action on health equity: A literature review
- Case Study: Leadership for health equity: Working intersectorally and engaging the community in Western Health (2014)
- Case Study: Fostering health through healing: engaging the community to create a poverty reduction strategy in Nunavut (2014)
- Case Study: Alberta Health Services: Establishing a province-wide social determinants of health and health equity approach (2013)
- Case Study: Improving health equity in Saskatoon: From data to action (2012)
- Case Study: Empower the community: New Brunswick’s approach to overcoming poverty (2012)
- Case Study: Capitalizing on change: Building leadership competency in public health in Quebec (2012)
Reference
National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health. (2012). Making the case for health equity: Winnipeg’s experience. Antigonish, NS: Author.
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