Dr. Lynn McIntyre, Professor and CIHR Chair in Gender and Health, University of Calgary and President of the Canadian Public Health Association, shows how financial policy affects people’s ability to purchase nutritious food.
This guide offers ideas—with stories to illustrate— for how public health can work with communities to build organizational capacity, develop partnerships and coalitions, and make the case for health equity.
This 2010 policy discussion paper was produced by the Canadian Nurses Association following a review of their social justice initiative. The resource includes an updated version of the Social Justice Gauge, a tool to assess programs, policies, and products.
The Rio Declaration is a call by the World Health Organization to end health inequities world-wide. Published in October, 2011, it outlines a global political commitment to eliminate health inequities and the underlying social conditions that cause them.
Do you want to monitor or measure inequalities in health in your region? This online book from the South East England Public Health Observatory (SEPHO) provides an array of methods to monitor and measure inequalities at a local level.