Presentation by Bob Gardner, Director Public Policy, to Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (Feb. 2007)
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Social Determinants of Health and Healthy Public Policy
Presentation to the Conference Board of Canada Roundtable on Social Determinants of Health, by Bob Gardner, Director Public Policy, Wellesley Institute, October, 2006. Here is the presentation: Social Determinants of Health and Healthy Public Policy View more documents from WellesleyInstitute.
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European policy action on health inequality
A number of European countries have long emphasized comprehensive national strategies to reduce health disparities and address the social determinants of health in their polices and programmes. This has been particularly marked in the Nordic countries. A recent report from the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services to the national parliament sets out a […]
More bad news for renters…
Canada’s four million renter households woke up to more bad news this morning as the latest survey from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation shows that the country’s already dangerously low rental vacancy rate has slipped even lower. There’s more bad news: The CMHC survey reveals that over the past year, rents have increased faster than […]
Ontario Hospital Association Conference, Community Engagement in a LHINS Environment
Presentation by Bob Gardner, Director of Public Policy at the Wellesley Institute, June 26, 2006.
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Housing and Health: Making the connections
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.
Towards A Healthier Ontario: Social determinants of health as a framework for creating the provincial budget
A written submission to Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan as part of a pre-budget consultation on December 14, 2005. Here is the presentation: Towards A Healthier Ontario: Social determinants of health as a framework for creating the provincial budget View more documents from WellesleyInstitute.
Housing and Homelessness: A look at 21 Ontario cities and communities
A Powerpoint presentation to a Health Canada workshop on the recent housing environment in Ontario, given on February 6, 2006. Here is the presentation: Housing and Homelessness: A look at 21 Ontario cities and communities View more documents from WellesleyInstitute.
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Talkin' housing with the Bush man!
The charming, even charismatic, Philip Mangano – U.S. President George W. Bush’s “homeless czar” – was the keynote speaker on day one of the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association annual congress in Calgary on Thursday, and he didn’t disappoint! Of course, you’d expect that a senior political appointee for the Bush administration would be a […]
Policy Network: Essay Collection Released
The Policy Network is a London-based European progressive think tank that does innovative research and thinking on pressing issues of social and economic inequality, social change and public policy reform. It has released a new collection of “essays by progressive academics and politicians in Europe on the challenge of immigration and social integration in Western […]