This commentary draws attention to long-standing inequities experienced by people with disabilities in Canada and calls for overhauling how the public health and health care fields define and advance health equity for people with disabilities.
This Equity in Action story is distilled from an interview with David Surette, Public Health Nurse, COVID-19 Response Team; Nancy Green, Health Promoter, Healthy Communities Team; and Christine Johnson, Health Equity Lead, Science and System…
This Equity in Action story is distilled from an interview with: Dr. Eva Purkey, Family Doctor, Department of Family Medicine, Queen’s University Dr. Imaan Bayoumi, Family Doctor and Clinician Researcher, Department of Family Medicine,…
How do you make health equity explicit in your work? This paper describes the process of developing public health personnel training for embedding health equity in emergency preparedness processes and documents.
Learning from community expertise is essential to make change happen. Storytellers from the Peer-2-Peer Program in Chatham Kent, Ontario will share insights from the work they’ve been doing to…
How did health inequities among community populations during the COVID-19 pandemic affect community health nurses? This research inquiry discusses experiences of moral distress among community health nurses, with particular attention to health inequities.
Organizations are working to advance equity, use trauma-informed practice, and apply an anti-racism and anti-oppression approach. We can learn from these organizations. In this session, we will hear…
Migrants are systemically excluded from universal health coverage, an important social determinant of health. This article describes a model of knowledge translation led by front-line workers to improve access to health services for migrants living in Ontario.
In this fourth COVID-19 conversation series, we will share stories where barriers to advancing equity and justice were removed and views of a more equitable and just future came into being.
This Equity in Action story is distilled from an interview with Sandy Zidner, Manager, Child Health and Development, and Rachael Markovsky, Manager, Communicable Disease Control, at Toronto Public Health. The interview took place in January 2023, and…