…housing and end up homeless. The Wellesley Institute came together with a collaboration of health, income security, and housing organizations to conduct a health equity impact assessment of the decision to eliminate the CSUMB. The report shows the eliminating the CSUMB will have inequitable and avoidable health impacts on populations…
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The Spatial Trap: Exploring Equitable Access To Public Transit
…brought into policy debate and this paper shows how. It highlights how to shift the framing of policy development to address health equity by considering social need, accessibility and affordability using the Health Equity Impact Assessment policy tool. About the Author Ron Wray has twenty years public sector experience in…
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The real costs of cutting refugee health benefits are coming
…Medical Officers of Health. In our health equity impact assessment of the cuts, The Real Cost of Cutting Refugee Health Benefits, we demonstrated that the consequences of cuts to the Interim Federal Health Program are unfair, inequitable, and totally predictable: Accessing even basic health care services will be difficult for…
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Markham, Richmond Hill need new community health centre to tackle health inequities
…work at the Wellesley Institute is health equity – the fundamental differences in health among different parts of our population – and we know that community health centres are both effective and innovative in tackling health equities. The Wellesley Institute’s Bob Gardner is a leading expert on building equity and…
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Building Equity Into Health Impact Assessment
…been one of the drivers behind the emergence of specific Health Equity Impact Assessment tools.) They argued further that HIA needs to be part of a broader shift to comprehensive ‘health in all policies’ approaches. HIA must take a similarly broad view of the evidence it uses: peer-reviewed literature tends…
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Health Equity Resources for LHINs: Building Equity Into Planning
…Long-Term Care and piloted and implemented in a number of LHINs. Wellesley has a page with links to workshops, tips and other resources to realize the potential of HEIA for equity-focused planning. These notes provide starting points. Building Equity Into Planning View more presentations from Wellesley Institute. >>Table of Contents…
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Rethinking Refugee Rights on Refugee Rights Day
…(Refugee HOMES). These adverse and inequitable consequences were predicted in our Health Equity Impact Assessment, and unfortunately they are coming to pass. Since refugees have experienced persecution in their home country, they may already be health disadvantaged – particularly in terms of employment opportunities and in areas of mental health…
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Living In Auspicious Times: health as a human right
…WHO in 2008, Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity Through Action on the Social Determinants of Health. Then in 2009, the World Health Assembly passed Resolution 62.14 requiring the WHO to follow up on the report’s recommendations. By this spring, the draft conference Discussion Paper was open for…
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Health Systems Knowledge Network
…systems as social determinants of health, and focuses on how national health systems can address health inequity, primarily in low and middle income countries. The report gives an overview of how health systems are implicated in both health and health equity, and describes some of the equity problems of health…
Refugees are feeling the real cost of cuts to health benefits
…way to address perceived problems in the refugee claims system. The Wellesley Institute will work with provider and community partners to monitor the effect of cuts to the IFHP and will provide updates. In the meantime, read our health equity impact assessment, The Real Cost of Cutting Refugee Health Benefits….
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