By Bob Gardner and Emily Wong The federal government's decision to stop funding the Health Council of Canada as of March 2014 had prompted an outcry from the Continue Reading…
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Driving Health Equity for Refugee and Immigrant Populations: Policy Actions Needed
April 4, 2013 by
I was speaking at a fascinating conference in Montreal. The seminar was reporting on the final stages of a comprehensive multi-site research project on the Continue Reading…
New Federal Changes to Refugee Healthcare Make a Bad Situation Far Worse
December 14, 2012 by
The federal government today released its list of Designated Countries of Origin The dangerous health impact will be that refugee claimants from these Continue Reading…
Improving Health Policy: Complex Policy and Governance for Complex Issues
September 18, 2012 by
The World Health Organization's European office has just published a very interesting book on Governance for Health in the 21st Century. It begins from a Continue Reading…
Acting on the Social Determinants of Health: the Potential of Intersectoral Collaboration
September 17, 2012 by
Addressing the social determinants of health that underlie pervasive and damaging health inequities is a complex and dynamic challenge -- a classic 'wicked' Continue Reading…
Health Equity Impact Assessment as a Policy Tool
September 11, 2012 by
The Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ) and the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy publish a Public Policy and Health Continue Reading…
Actions to address the impact of cuts to refugee health benefits
July 23, 2012 by
As we have previously blogged, the federal government recently cut health benefits for many refugees. In The Real Cost of Cutting Refugee Health Benefits, the Continue Reading…
POWER: A Vital Ingredient for Equity-Driven Health Reform
June 28, 2012 by
The POWER (Project for an Ontario Women's Health Evidence-Based Report) study has been an amazing source of data and evidence on population health, the Continue Reading…
Happy Pride II: Ensuring Health Equity For LGBTQ Communities
June 28, 2012 by
The inequitable health outcomes and the stigma, discrimination and other barriers to access to health faced by LGBTQ communities have been well documented. In Continue Reading…
Driving Health Equity into Action: Lessons from Europe
June 27, 2012 by
While high-level commitment to health equity is increasingly widespread and Ontario's Excellent Care For All Act enshrines equity and population health as key Continue Reading…
