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Health Equity: Pushing the Boundaries

The theme of the Association of Ontario Health Centre’s annual conference was building equity and diversity into the core of community-based primary care and health promotion. I set out a broad framework on how to drive health equity into action through comprehensive strategies and clear priorities, putting these goals into practice through good planning and resource allocation, building equity into ongoing service delivery and performance management, and looking at health promotion and other up-stream issues through an equity lens (for the audio click here).  I also did a short interview on health equity and the vital role of Community Health Centres.

Gardner aohc conf june 11 2010 equity strategy into action

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.