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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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Health Systems Knowledge Network

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About the Network Web Site: Health Systems Knowledge Network Organizational Hub: Centre for Health Policy, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.   Reports   Challenging Health Inequity through Health Systems Author(s): Lucy Gilson, Jane Doherty, Rene Loewenson and Victoria Francis Published: June 2007 Summary: This report introduces the concept of health systems as social determinants of […]

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Ontario budget 2009: Battered social infrastructure gets little relief

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Ontario’s critically important social infrastructure is taking a battering in the current recession, but the 2009 provincial budget offers almost no relief. Community-based health, social services and housing providers are on the front lines in delivering the practical and basic supports that people who are suffering the most in the current recession desperately need. Community […]

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.