The Canadian Health Services Research Foundation has long published useful guides, reports and other resources on knowledge exchange and how to effectively get research to decision-makers. The have developed a valuable new database of tools to help organizations create, share and use research. They collect strategies, stories, frameworks, evaluation plans and other literature, categorized into […]
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Greater Toronto Urban Observatory
The Greater Toronto Urban Observatory monitors and evaluates urban issues. Bookmark this site and visit regularly as it has great info on Toronto and the surrounding area. The GTUO is part of the global network of urban observatories under the umbrella of the United Nation’s Centre for Human Settlements. – Michael Shapcott
Debating housing and homelessness in LA
The Los Angeles Times recently devoted five days to a debate on housing and homelessness between two policy experts. Prof. Peter Dreier is recognized as one of the leading housing experts in the world. His detailed analysis of the LA situation has a lot of practical observations about housing and homelessness issues in other metropolitan […]
Plan to end homelessness in LA
Los Angeles is often called the homeless capital of the United States. With 90,000 or more people on the streets and in shelters, the homelessness crisis there has been growing worse in recent years. A blue-ribbon panel of homeless experts, advocates, academics, service providers and politicians recently produced a comprehensive ten-year strategic plan called Bring […]
Ontario's housing allowance plan violates federal operating principles
Ontario’s $185 million housing allowance plan, announced in the 2007 provincial budget on March 22 and funded entirely with federal affordable housing trust fund dollars, violates the operating principles tabled by federal finance minister Jim Flaherty in the House of Commons in May of 2006. The federal housing dollars were authorized by Parliament in Bill […]
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Knowledge Exchange Planning Guide
The Institute for Work and Health, working with John Lavis, a leading expert on knowledge exchange for health research, have developed a practical and clear planning guide, designed to be used with facilitated workshops. It is organized around five key principles, which can be posed as questions: what is the message? who is the intended […]
Race & Health Disparaties in the U.S.
Kate Meyers of the Kaiser Permanent Institute for Health Policy has done a comprehensive and insightful review of the research literature on race and health disparities in the US. The goal of her paper is to help develop a clear conceptual and multi-sectoral analytical framework to understand disparities and a platform from which better policy […]
New Website On The Social Determinants Of Health
The Public Health Agency of Canada has launched a new web site related to Canada’s work in the World Health Organization’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. It provides information on the Canadian reference group (I was at a consultation on the role of civil society in relation to the SDoH organized by the […]
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TO 2007 operating budget: Housing and homelessness cuts
Three governmental budgets have been delivered over the past seven days, and the hundreds of thousands of low, moderate and middle-income Torontonians seeking affordable housing have been left out of all three. The federal budget of March 19 was entirely silent on new affordable housing spending; the provincial budget of March 22 merely re-announced previously […]
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Ontario budget 2007: Thanks for the thoughts, but where's the money?
Ontario’s 2007 provincial budget has plenty of strong language about poverty and affordable housing. But the dollars are missing. Not a single new penny has been devoted to affordable housing, and the dollars devoted to eradicating poverty are limited and stretch over a number of years. At a time when 600,000 Ontario households are in […]
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