Immigration status is a significant yet often overlooked determinant of health. This issue brief outlines the health and health equity impacts of immigration status for migrants in Canada to build understanding and guide public health planning, policy and action.
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This online course from the Black Health Education Collaborative addresses critical gaps in medical and public health education and training on anti-Black racism. Through eight interactive modules, it supports learners to deepen their understanding of anti-Black racism and identify solutions to address the health inequities experienced by Black people and communities in Canada.
To influence the structural and social determinants of health and advance health equity, public health must support power building in communities facing inequities. This Let’s Talk introduces community organizing as an effective and critical tool for building community power.
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.
What are the factors that influence health? And, what are the opportunities for integrated, networked public health action at multiple levels? In this webinar, Pemma Muzumdar and Jonathan Heller, authors of “Let’s Talk: Determinants of Health”, will explore these questions and more, and reflect on the wider forces and systems that interact with the conditions of daily life.