This resource, based on interviews with practitioners from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, captures practice-based learning that public health can use when co-creating and implementing health equity frameworks and taking other actions to advance health equity.
This study finds that workers with disabilities in Canada are roughly twice as likely to be in low-quality employment compared to workers without disabilities. The study contributes to our understanding of inequities in the Canadian labour market and can inform public health action to support decent work for all workers — an important social determinant of health.
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.
Public health teams and their partners can use the Systematic Equity Action-Analysis (SEA) framework to reflect on — and improve — how equity is integrated into programs, services, policies, engagement processes and more.
This article presents a leadership for health equity framework that centres concepts of equity, diversity and inclusion. The authors developed this integrated framework to address the limitations of traditional health leadership development programs to better prepare leaders to disrupt root causes of inequities.