…in the country, Toronto has an important leadership role. The 2014 municipal election campaign will be a good opportunity for the people of Toronto to press those issues onto the public agenda. The election is also an opportunity for political candidates (including incumbents) to set out their housing policy prescriptions….
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The Real Cost Of Cutting Refugee Health Benefits
…Federal Health Benefit. HEIA is a tool used to analyze a new program or policy’s potential impact on health disparities and/or on health disadvantaged populations. Our HEIA finds that the planned changes to the Interim Federal Health Benefit will have real – and inequitable – health impacts for refugees, especially…
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Planning for Health Equity: Mental Health Promotion and Care
…effectively. Second, we know there is a key problem, such as higher re-admissions, and need to drill down to find a solution. Can HEIA help for both these purposes? In working through the scenarios, we determined that it can. Hong Fook HEIA May 2011 View more presentations from Wellesley Institute…
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More Resources On HEIA And HIA
…The HIA connect website has compiled a list of completed HEIAs. There are several websites with lots of resources and information on HEIA and HIA in general, including training opportunities, news, case studies, and tools: HIA Gateway of the UK Association of Public Health Observatories collects information on HIA and…
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Equity
…Institute is participating). The report also calls for Health Equity Impact Assessments (HEIA) to be conducted prior to program and policy implementation to identify the differential impacts of interventions on sub-populations. Moreover, the report applies the existing Ontario HEIA tool, which was developed in partnership with the Wellesley Institute, to…
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Federal election and housing: When candidates ask for your vote, ask them about affordable homes
Millions of Canadians are precariously housed – and the nation-wide affordable housing crisis is costly to individuals, communities, the economy and government. But will housing get serious attention in the federal election? The Wellesley Institute has prepared a flip sheet so that when federal election candidates ask for your vote,…
Enhancing Employment Insurance: From Promises to Progress
…As soon as the campaign launched, economy and jobs were the top election issues on Twitter. Over the 11-week election campaign, all the federal parties addressed jobs and income security through a range of different proposals. Importantly, Employment Insurance (EI) was on the front burner. The EI system is an…
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The state of the nation’s housing – federal election 2008
…– $135 million annually) was renewed for five years just three days before the election was called. HPI funds hundreds of programs and services in 61 communities, but the need outstrips the available resources. The federal housing repair program (Residential Rehabilitation Assistance Program – $128 million annually) also renewed for…
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A New Kind Of Community Engagement: Building A Better Budget For Toronto
…Day – is to inject some ideas for change into the 2014 election process. With fiscal issues almost certain to be front and centre once again in the upcoming election, it makes sense to take a close look at not only how much money gets spent where, and where revenue…
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Using Health Equity Impact Assessment Creatively: Local Mental Health Strategy
…other jurisdictions to build equity into service provision I recently presented a workshop to the Mental Health and Addictions Decision Support Working Group of the Toronto Central LHIN on how HEIA could be applied to developing quality improvement plans and indicators. Wellesley has created a page on HEIA with other…
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