…have in the process. It’s time to democratize health data and place it in the hands of the communities of people who best understand their own lives. A health system in which racialized communities own their own data could fundamentally shift power dynamics, empowering them to shape their own futures….
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Life expectancy doesn’t tell the whole story
There are wide variations in life expectancy in Canada across regions and socio-economic status. But life expectancy doesn’t tell the whole story. Higher income Canadians live longer and healthier lives than those in lower income brackets. In Thursday’s Globe and Mail, columnist André Picard explains these findings in his analysis…
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Winnipeg Integrated Health and Social Services
…The WRHA, Manitoba Family Services and Housing and Manitoba Health are committed to working with communities to ensure that citizens are involved in decisions that affect their lives. In each community, there will be opportunities for citizens to express their opinions about Access as it is developed in their area….
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"All Cuts Aren’t Created Equal": Wellesley Weighs In On the Core Service Review with an Editorial in The Toronto Star
…succeed in school. Research shows that these programs result in improved academic performance, classroom atmosphere, attendance, and overall nutritional intake which help kids establish healthy eating habits that last throughout their lives. The students who benefit most from these programs are from low-income families and they are the ones who…
Connecting employment conditions and health inequalities
…potential links between employment conditions and health inequalities in its employment conditions knowledge network report. The report is available here. The Wellesley Institute released a short report last December on the impact of our working lives on our health. You can read it here. (This blog is cross-posted with www.talkingaboutjobs.ca)…
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5 Ideas for City Design to Increase Mental Health, Health & Well-being
…in their daily lives, improving both physical and mental health. 2. Not only does our city need to be connected, it needs to be accessible too. Luke Anderson from Stop Gap says that four inches of a step can make a big difference to someone in a wheelchair. If we…
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Your #stopracism15 Ideas
…equal opportunities for good health? @wellesleyWI easy just clamp down on institutional racism in key businesses and organisations e.g.NHS — chimeme egbutah (@urbanlives) March 7, 2015 Thanks, Chimeme. Institutional racism is indeed a problem, especially in health. We recently released a paper that explores how Indigenous peoples in Canada experience…
School-Based Meal Programs To Counteract Food Insecurity?
…powerful role in our daily lives and is an important determinant of health. But food insecurity is, more often than not, a result of income insecurity. School-based meal programs would temporarily relieve a child’s hunger, but ultimately fail to solve the problem of why kids show up to school hungry…
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Critical Characteristics of Supported Housing
The importance of good quality housing in people’s lives cannot be overstated. A resident of supported housing articulates its impact: It has allowed me to stop worrying about those things that were holding me back. [Previously], I was so suppressed with all this negative energy and, and these negative things…
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Ryan Meili uses powerful storytelling to bring SDoH to the policy table
…in a casual forum to discuss what kind of policy changes we need to see to be able to have the kinds of changes happen that will positively impact people’s lives. Meili has been praised for his pioneering work as a co-founder of the Student Wellness Initiative Toward Community Health…
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