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Health Equity Into Action in Central LHIN
Central LHIN has taken a promising two-pronged approach to equity: equity is one of the key priorities within their Integrated Health Service Plan or strategic plan; and they have focussed on several particularly health disadvantaged areas within their region. They called a provider and community consultation on how to move forward on these focused initiatives. […]
Living In Auspicious Times: health as a human right
World Conference on Social Determinants of Health Rio de Janeiro, October 19-21, 2011 World Health Organization (WHO) Margot Lettner “We live in very auspicious times for participation. It sails the winds of history.” Among the many papers I picked up at the Rio Conference is one authored by Bernardo Kliksberg, Honorary Professor, University of Buenos […]
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Building Health Equity: Saskatoon’s Dr. Cory Neudorf Shares Lessons Learned
Diane Dyson is Director of Research & Public Policy, Strategic Initiatives Unit at WoodGreen Community Services, and is guest blogging for us today. You can read her blog at http://belongingcommunity.wordpress.com. A few days ago, the Saskatoon Poverty Reduction Partnership, an intersectoral approach to poverty spearheaded by the Saskatoon Health Region, released an update of its […]
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Building Equity Into Ontario’s New Health Care Action Plan
The Minister of Health and Long-Term Care today launched an ambitious plan to transform Ontario’s health care system. It identifies key drivers of change to improve access, quality and value; all underlain by improved system coordination and coherence, and by service and quality innovation. These are positive directions, but the opportunity must not be lost […]
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New Research on the Equity Potential of Community-Grounded Primary Care
Brilliant health economist, Bob Evans, occasionally spoke of ‘zombies’: policy and health funding prescriptions that were constantly refuted by evidence but kept coming back. One such zombie is the idea that equity and effectiveness are incompatible. New research from ICES comparing primary care models, however, demonstrates that Community Health Centres, whose fundamental goal is improving health […]
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Breaking down the barriers to employment
This morning’s Toronto Star includes a front page story about how Ontario’s employment training programs shut out half of the province’s unemployed. The problem is that strict eligibility criteria mean that Employment Ontario’s job training supports are only available to people who are receiving employment insurance benefits, and this excludes a large number of unemployed […]
Realizing the Potential of Health Equity Impact Assessment
A presentation by Bob Gardner on embedding equity in LHIN and provider deliverables at the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care HEIA Conference Realizing the Potential of Health Equity Impact Assessment from Wellesley Institute
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Ten Promising Practices on Equity from Sudbury Public Health
Public health is one of the most important policy and service delivery mechanisms for addressing health inequities. The Sudbury and District Health Unit has long played a leadership role in realizing this potential to advance health equity. They undertook innovative research to determine how public health can address systemic health inequities and identified ten promising practices […]
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How Ontario government ministries are acting on social determinants of health
This is a guest blog by Nicoda Foster and Christine Chan, Masters of Public Health Students at the University of Toronto and University of Liverpool respectively. They also both work in policy analysis and project management in the health sector in Toronto, Ontario. We would like to share findings from a survey we conducted over […]
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