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Bob Gardner

Building Equity Into Ontario’s New Health Care Action Plan

The Minister of Health and Long-Term Care recently released an ambitious plan to transform Ontario’s health-care system. It identifies key drivers of change to improve access, quality and value; all underlain by improved sys­tem coordination and coherence, and by service and qual­ity innovation. These are positive directions, but there is a critical element missing. We need to ensure that this trans­formation also contributes to reducing pervasive and dam­aging inequities in health that exist in the province, so we need to build equity into these reforms from the outset.

This policy brief sets out key directions to drive equity into health-care reform, and beyond.

 

Building Equity Into Ontario’s New Health Care Action Plan

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Bob Gardner

Bob Gardner

Bob Gardner was the Director of Policy at Wellesley Institute, 2006-2014. His expertise was in health equity policy working with governments, LHINs, service provider networks, and community partners to develop effective strategies and action plans to enhance health equity. He served on many health policy advisory forums, working groups and boards. Bob has a Ph.D. in sociology; has been an academic, public sector executive and consultant; and has been a community activist on HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, and other issues

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.