A Powerpoint presentation to a workshop on the social determinants of health at St. Joseph’s Health Centre in Toronto on December 8, 2005. Here is the presentation: Housing and Health: Making the connections View more documents from WellesleyInstitute.
Blueprint for Health Equity
Presentation to the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions Conference by Bob Gardner, Director of Public Policy. August 2007.
OPHA Symposium: Blueprint for Health Equity
Bob Gardner, Director of Research and Policy, presented at the OPHA in November 2007 on health equity, chronic disease, and the social determinants of health. His Blueprint for Health Equity talk sets out promising policy directions and action to reduce health disparities. Here is the presentation: OPHA Symposium: Blueprint for Health Equity View more documents […]
Diabetes Planning Through an Equity Lens
Wellesley Board member Jan Campbell, in her capacity as a consultant to the Greater Toronto CHC Network, and Bob Gardner, Director of Policy and Research, along with Lynne Raskin, ED of South Riverdale CHC, and Laura Cowan, ED of Street Health, facilitated a workshop on applying the urban health framework developed by the GT CHCs […]
Building on What We Know: Research by Community Health Centres and Community Family Health Teams
Principal Organizations: Association of Ontario Health Centres Partner Organizations: AOHC (members) Principal Investigator(s): Danielle Kurchak A database was developed to collect information on research projects in which AOHC member centres had been involved over the past 5 years. As of June 2008, a total of 41 research project were collected in the databse, which is […]
eHealth and Health Equity:Comments on Ontario’s eHealth Strategy
Before the provincial agency coordinating eHealth was engulfed in controversy, it issued a strategy in 2009 and called for input. This policy briefing sets out how equity can be built into e health strategy. Here is the report for downloading.
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Senate Subcommittee Releases Report on Population Health
The Senate Subcommittee on Population Health has been analyzing the social determinants of health and the foundations of health inequalities for several years. Its final report A Healthy Productive Canada: a Determinant of Health Approach has just been released.
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Back to the Future? Spectre of Clintoncare hangs over Obama’s Health Care Reform
As a Canadian who has studied U.S. health policy but now works as a policy analyst at the Wellesley Institute in Toronto, I find that Canadians are very interested in potential health care reforms going on South of the border. One of the questions that I am asked most frequently is what the differences are […]
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New report shows that income and age are important factors for cancer care for women
Today marked the release of the POWER Study Cancer Chapter, part of a provincial Report on women's health which can be used as an evidence-based tool to help policy-makers, health care providers and consumers improve the health of, and reducing inequities among the women of Ontario. The main findings is that income matters when it […]
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Youth Engagement in a Digital Age
The St. James Town Initiative was invited to present at the Toronto Neighbourhood Centres’ Youth Workers Forum: Youth Engagement in a Digital Age. Research assistant Estelle Sun presented on behalf of the St. James Town Initiative and Wellesley Institute. Estelle discussed our experience with using a variety of technological tools for engaging youths. Our tools, cameras […]