…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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Important progress toward a health-enabling social assistance system, but more work is required
…that any extension of benefits outside of social assistance are adequately resourced. This extension of benefits should not be paid for by people on social assistance, who are among the most vulnerable of Ontarians. Any reduction in benefits will worsen existing health inequities. Assessing health and health equity impacts We…
Health summit talks have an opportunity to turn to health equity
When health ministers meet in Vancouver this week they will discuss what a new national health accord will look like. In this discussion, the federal government has a powerful lever to improve health and health equity in Canada. The health accord is an opportunity to set out conditions that provinces…
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Expo 2025: Health and Health Equity Impact Assessment
…which would stay in Toronto beyond 2025. In order to best make use of the substantial investments that will be made in Toronto as an Expo host, the Coordinating Committee will need to carefully consider the potential health and health equity impacts of any developments associated with hosting Expo 2025….
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Building on Community-Based Innovation/Acting on the Social Determinants of Health
…underlying social determinants of health. And many community organizations and some municipalities are working to improve the foundations of healthier and more equitable communities. More and more use of Health Equity Impact Assessment and other equity focused planning will also yield increasing information on existing systemic barriers and the needs…
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Wellesley Community Roundtables on Health Equity
…were prepared to facilitate this ‘sharpening’ exercise at the February: Operationalizing health equity within the health system How to identify the most promising of the ideas generated at the December roundtables, Health Equity Working Session, February 28, 2008 – Backgrounder Health Equity Now: A Working Paper on the Best First…
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Rethinking the definition of institutional racism
…their voter base. The Race Relations Amendment Act was repealed by the Government in 2010. One of the most important levers in promoting health equity in the UK was lost. On my last visit to the UK I was told that the ability to promote equity in mental health care…
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Equitable Access to Mental Health Services a Must for Health Care in Canada
…Looking up at these other systems rather than looking down at the USA may help us deliver better health across Canada. Canada rated especially poorly on equity. The best overall health system – the UK – performed best worldwide on this front. In my experience, equity in Canada’s health systems…
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Does Upholding The Right To Health Decrease Inequities?
…the right to health and make it a legally binding obligation within its jurisdiction. So, do we have a right to health in Canada? Yes. But what does that mean? The right to health is not the right to be healthy. There is no policy or health care service that…
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Access to prescription drugs – HEIA in the Federal Election
…afford the drugs they need9. The anxiety associated with inability to afford basic necessities such as food, housing, prescription drugs and dental forces individuals to make trade-offs which may impact their health, such as making the decision whether to fill a prescription or go to the dentist. Health Equity Impacts…
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