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Continue ReadingHealth Equity Now: A Working Paper on the Best First Steps for Ontario
Wellesley Institute works in research and policy to improve health and health equity in the GTA through action on the social determinants of health.
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Youth, as the saying goes, is supposed to be the best time in your life. But for many youth in Toronto, this period in their lives is marked by vulnerability, instability and marginalization. Yet, in spite of their hardships and a sometimes confusing and complicated array of services, many youth are able to demonstrate remarkable […]
Continue ReadingTwo new reports explore the fragility and resilience of youth
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Why are equal societies better for everyone? Look here for the answer to everything – with puppets! This amusing and amazing three-minute video gives a quick taste, and leaves you wanting to know more of the sophisticated analysis in Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s powerful book on inequality – The Spirit Level.
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The programs most typically are designed to take as affordable housing some portion of the units being built as market housing. As a result, the affordable units typically are the same as the market units in size (number of bedrooms and square footage) and tenure. This housing is then provided at a price or rent […]
Continue ReadingWhat kinds of affordable housing do these programs create?
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I posted a speech I gave recently at a conference on health equity for children. One of the themes we talked about was that health care professionals and institutions have considerable prestige and social standing, and can use this privileged position to effectively speak to social issues beyond health. At the same time, there is […]
Continue ReadingUsing the Podiums We Have To Advance an Equity Agenda
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I recently presented a workshop to senior staff at a Toronto academic hospital on Health Equity Impact Assessment. We need good planning to operationalize equity within hospitals, community health centres and other service providers and HEIA is an effective planning tool. The discussion was incredibly rich and working through the steps of HEIA sparked off […]
Continue ReadingHealth Equity Into Action Through Good Planning: Health Equity Impact Assessment
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It’s really hard to boil down complex policy and social challenges into snappy and popular language. Here is a recent attempt in an interview I did at the Association of Ontario Health Centres conference.
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Canada’s health care system is based on the principles of comprehensiveness, universality, portability, public administration and accessibility. But, many people are excluded from access to the healthcare they need because they are not eligible for provincial health insurance. Every year, thousands of people come to Canada, in particular to Ontario, Canada’s economic hub. Canada invites these […]
Continue ReadingWho cares for the undocumented and uninsured?
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Almost all LHINs have identified the need to map their local population health. Part of this needs to be identifying key barriers to equitable access, those population facing the greatest health disparities and gaps in services. The Right Tools for the Right Purposes There is no single ‘magic bullet’ tool that can be used for […]
Continue ReadingHealth Equity Resources for LHINs: Building Equity Into Planning
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The increasing segregation of Toronto by income is also driving an increase in health inequalities. Michael Shapcott’s presentation to the Lakeshore interagency group at LAMP in September of 2010 outlines the realities of growing segregation by income in neighbourhoods throughout Toronto, and the corresponding increase in health inequality.
We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.
Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.