As the spread and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated in Canada and the world, we find ourselves in a cycle of planning, response and recovery. The National Collaborating Centres for Infectious Diseases and Determinants of Health (NCCID and NCCDH, respectively) have responded by reviewing lessons learned and recommendations on health equity from past pandemics in Canada.
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.
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.
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 report summarizes stories of action on equity and discusses facilitators, barriers and lessons in advancing equity. The themes presented in this report can inspire and inform public health and other practitioners to sustain or initiate action on equity.
This story outlines how Cool Aid community organization and their partners responded to support people made vulnerable by their housing situation in Victoria, British Columbia during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Equity, community, collaboration, and holistic care were centered. Principles and practices to support improved relationships between community, primary care and public health are highlighted.
This story outlines the COVID-19 response at the Cargill plant in Alberta, where equity and community were centered. Principles and practices to support improved relationships between public health and primary care are highlighted.
As we wrap up our conversation series on recovery and regeneration, we come together for a final session on hope. Moving into summer, we turn our attention to making peace with the natural world…
In this webinar we will reflect on how public health practitioners can show courage through listening, by disrupting the status quo and in speaking out against systems built on core values inconsistent with health equity.