Dr Bob Gardner recently presented to a professional development workshop with the Health Professions Appeal and Review Broad and several other Ontario health regulatory or policy agencies. His co-participant was Kwasi Kafele of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health , a long-time diversity and equity leader. The Boards wanted to understand the foundations and dynamics […]
A Snapshot of Equity Initiatives on LHIN Websites–Central East LHIN
Links http://www.centraleastlhin.on.ca/ The Culture, Diversity and Equity Project Integrated Health Service Plan (part 1) Integrated Health Service Plan (part 2)
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A Snapshot of Equity Initiatives on LHIN Websites–North West LHIN
Links http://www.northwestlhin.on.ca Equity Highlights The Northwest LHIN has recently created an Aboriginal Health Services Advisory Committee (it is currently looking for members)
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Health Equity Now: A Working Paper on the Best First Steps for Ontario
Two new reports explore the fragility and resilience of youth
Youth, as the saying goes, is supposed to be the best time in your life. But for many youth in Toronto, this period in their lives is marked by vulnerability, instability and marginalization. Yet, in spite of their hardships and a sometimes confusing and complicated array of services, many youth are able to demonstrate remarkable […]
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The answer to everything (with puppets)
Why are equal societies better for everyone? Look here for the answer to everything – with puppets! This amusing and amazing three-minute video gives a quick taste, and leaves you wanting to know more of the sophisticated analysis in Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s powerful book on inequality – The Spirit Level.
What kinds of affordable housing do these programs create?
The programs most typically are designed to take as affordable housing some portion of the units being built as market housing. As a result, the affordable units typically are the same as the market units in size (number of bedrooms and square footage) and tenure. This housing is then provided at a price or rent […]
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Using the Podiums We Have To Advance an Equity Agenda
I posted a speech I gave recently at a conference on health equity for children. One of the themes we talked about was that health care professionals and institutions have considerable prestige and social standing, and can use this privileged position to effectively speak to social issues beyond health. At the same time, there is […]
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Health Equity Into Action Through Good Planning: Health Equity Impact Assessment
I recently presented a workshop to senior staff at a Toronto academic hospital on Health Equity Impact Assessment. We need good planning to operationalize equity within hospitals, community health centres and other service providers and HEIA is an effective planning tool. The discussion was incredibly rich and working through the steps of HEIA sparked off […]
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Elevator Speech on Health Equity
It’s really hard to boil down complex policy and social challenges into snappy and popular language. Here is a recent attempt in an interview I did at the Association of Ontario Health Centres conference.