Creating Caring Communities, Healthier People…Together Go to Central LHIN website Download Central LHIN 2010-2013 IHSP See a snapshot from Central LHIN’s previous IHSP
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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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Creating Caring Communities, Healthier People…Together Go to Central LHIN website Download Central LHIN 2010-2013 IHSP See a snapshot from Central LHIN’s previous IHSP
Continue ReadingCentral LHIN Equity Initiatives in 2010-2013 IHSP
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Health and wellness for all… through an innovative, sustainable and accountable system Go to North East LHIN website See the North Eeast LHIN 2010-2013 IHSP See a snapshot from North East LHIN’s previous IHSP
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This term refers to housing provided at a price or rent that is affordable to moderate- and low-income households that cannot find suitable market-rate housing. Put another way, it is housing that is provided at a controlled price or rent substantially below the price or rent for the equivalent units on the market. It encompasses […]
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To make progress on health equity we need to embed equity into ongoing service planning and system performance management. And to do that we need solid actionable data. The POWER project provides this crucial data on health conditions, outcomes and service utilization by gender, socio-economic variables, region, language, ethno-cultural background,
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In 2008, the Canadian Home Builders Association commissioned Altus Clayton to write a report that is very critical of Inclusionary Housing. This report has been used as the basis for arguments that municipalities should not use IH policies to try to increase the supply of affordable housing. The Wellesley Institute commissioned David Rusk, a leading […]
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To drive health equity into practice we need to be able to identify the specific needs of health disadvantaged populations, key access barriers, and gaps in available services for these communities. Health Equity Impact Assessment is an effective planning tool that is increasingly being used within LHINs and in many other jurisdictions to build equity […]
Continue ReadingUsing Health Equity Impact Assessment Creatively: Local Mental Health Strategy
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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 lever several LHINs have used is to have their partner hospitals do health equity plans. I looked again at this really useful analysis led by Sanjeev Sridharan of the […]
Continue ReadingOne Lever To Drive Health Equity Into Practice: Hospital Equity Plans
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LHINs do have considerable powers and they have the potential to develop effective partnerships with providers to operationalize equity. One lever that has proven effective in several LHINs is having hospitals and/or community service providers develop health equity plans to guide their organizations. The 18 hospitals in Toronto Central developed comprehensive health equity plans in […]
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Bad housing leads to bad health, and good housing improves population health. Michael Shapcott’s presentation to the Ontario Municipal Social Services Association / Ontario Association of Hostels provincial forum on housing and homelessness in September of 2010 highlights current research on housing and health, and sets out some key research and policy gaps.
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Wellesley does a great deal of work on building equity into policy and program development. One way to do this is through equity focused planning tools such as Health Equity Impact Assessment and gender-based analysis. In a recent example from the UK, a gender-based analysis of the coalition government’s emergency budget revealed that nearly three-quarters […]
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