The authors of this document analysed the application of health equity assessment tools (HEATs) in Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and Canada to identify facilitators and barriers to success.
This blog describes my initial work in matching the NCCDH’s four "Public Health Roles for Improving Health Equity" with concrete examples and tools. This piece of work gave me some sense of ‘where to start.’ Public Health Roles for Improving Health Equity.
This report examines 13 programs or policies that have had some success in reducing health inequalities in Canada. All of the selected interventions set out to reduce health inequities through the social determinants of health, and they were evaluated using current medical evidence-based standards.
In this video, public health decision-makers and researchers describe how data can be used to deliberately uncover the health equity and the social determinants of health picture in communities.
This 11-page document defines population health advocacy and describes how it fits within Vancouver Coastal Health’s strategic approach. A number of tools and references for planning and implementing advocacy action are included.