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…