This rapid review seeks to understand how Whiteness shapes the Canadian nursing profession. Examples of how polices, practices and ideas uphold Whiteness and implications for leadership were synthesized from literature.
Community organizing can advance health equity and influence the social and structural determinants of health. This rapid review uncovers the benefits, challenges and outcomes of public health partnering with community-organizing groups and/or applying community-organizing methods.
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.
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.