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Building Health and Equity Into Policy: Policy Orientated Health Equity Impact Assessments
March 4, 2013 by
Addressing "wicked" policy and social problems such as systemic health inequities and their underlying social determinants requires comprehensive and Continue Reading…
Missing in Action (Plan): Equity
April 17, 2012 by
The Ontario government plans to conduct reviews of provincial spending. This both responds to the Drummond report call for more efficient and innovative 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…
One Lever To Drive Health Equity Into Practice: Hospital Equity Plans
August 24, 2010 by
I've been working on pulling together various tools and resources to help policy makers and planners put health equity into practice -- stay tuned here. One Continue Reading…
Levers for Change: Hospital Health Equity Plans
February 15, 2012 by
Addressing pervasive health inequities is an incredibly complex challenge. Valuable population health research has been done, comprehensive health equity Continue Reading…
Ten Promising Practices on Equity from Sudbury Public Health
August 9, 2012 by
Public health is one of the most important policy and service delivery mechanisms for addressing health inequities. The Sudbury and District Health Unit has Continue Reading…
Health as an Equity Issue – and as a Union Issue
September 27, 2010 by
I was really pleased to speak at an OPSEU symposium on equity over the weekend. Unions have long played a central role in the broad community coalitions that Continue Reading…
Rising Physician and Drug Costs Through an Equity Lens
October 29, 2010 by
The latest Canadian Institute for Health Information report on health care expenditures highlighted that hospitals, drugs and doctors are the largest components 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…
