This document summarizes results from a 2023–2024 survey of Ontario public health unit practices to promote healthy housing. Highlights of survey results are presented alongside public health roles and promising practices to address inadequate and unhealthy housing conditions as a determinant of health and key driver of health inequity.
Discover Season 2, Episode 1 “Disrupting environmental racism,” by listening to the episode and/or reading the episode companion document, which includes a written transcript, key quotes, related resources and discussion questions to support reflection, sharing and action.
Increase use and equitable enjoyment of public spaces, to reduce gender inequities rooted in the built environment.
This 2020 publication from the American Public Health Association examines the relationships and connections between housing, health equity and health outcomes, framed within the broader context of structural racism and its effects on neighborhood segregation, access to health-generating resources and wealth accumulation.
This journal article by Hassen discusses three considerations for equitable built environment interventions in the context of social distancing and pandemic related restrictions.