Ongoing massive changes to health care delivery and organization continue and ambitious plans to restructure the system are much debated within government, practitioner and community circles. The HIV community and service providers are vitally interested in the implications of Local Health Integration Networks, primary care reform, alternative practice structures and other key changes. I recently […]
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Proven: Canada cannot afford homelessness
A comprehensive new report by Gordon Laird for the Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership, released today, puts the cost of homelessness in Canada at $49.5 billion over the past decade. The research study includes a number of important findings, including: – poverty is the leading cause of homelessness; – homelessness is on the […]
New TO tax is fair, efficient, simple… and it could get new homes built!
Toronto City Councils Executive Committee will consider a recommendation for a new land transfer tax at its June 25, 2007, meeting. An extract from the exec agenda, with more information, is attached. This is an important new source of funding for urgently-needed housing funding that, combined with fully-funded national and provincial housing plans, would allow […]
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Health Equity into Policy Action
Presentation by Bob Gardner, Director Public Policy, to Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (Feb. 2007)
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.