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Wellesley Institute works in research and policy to improve health and health equity in the GTA through action on the social determinants of health.

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The Wellesley Urban Health Model Flip Sheet

To address the challenge of communicating the interconnected and complex relationships between the social determinants of health, the Wellesley Institute, in partnership with Lupina Foundation, has adopted a systems thinking approach. We developed a simulation model for the City of Toronto using System Dynamics modeling methodology. The Wellesley Urban Health Model simulates changes in health, social determinants and disparities beginning from the year 2006 and projecting forward to 2046, enabling users to plan and test scenarios under different assumptions.

The Wellesley Institute’s goal is to provide a tool that will allow us, our stakeholders and other policy-makers to ask “what if” questions about policy interventions.

The Wellesley Urban Health Model Flip Sheet

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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.