Oppression: A social determinant of health. 2nd Edition.
This book explores the connection between health and how various types of oppression including capitalism, colonialism, and other structural forces perpetuate health inequities at all levels.
Key concepts
Determining Health: Decent work issue brief
This NCCDH review of the evidence describes how hazardous work and precarious employment conditions impact health inequities in Canada. It illustrates why decent work is a solution to these inequities and is a vital domain for public health action.
Let’s Talk: Intersectionality
Intersectionality moves us from one dimensional understandings of discrimination and marginalization to the multifaceted roots of injustice. This Let’s Talk defines intersectionality and what it means for public health. It helps readers avoid flattening or whitening intersectionality and instead use it for transformative change.
Intersectionality: A curated list
The NCCDH has compiled this curated resource list to provide a foundational set of resources and tools to support public health practitioners, decision makers, policy makers, organizations, educators and researchers to understand and apply intersectionality.
Establishing a new interface between public health and primary care: A curated list
This curated reading list from the NCCDH and the NCCID highlights key resources for learning about the relationship between primary care and public health.