Here is a link to all the slides that were presented at Powering Equity: Canada’s first summit on race-based data for health. Powering Equity Summit May 15, 2024 (PDF)…
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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.
Here is a link to all the slides that were presented at Powering Equity: Canada’s first summit on race-based data for health. Powering Equity Summit May 15, 2024 (PDF)…
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Position title: Researcher Department: Research Type: Full-time, Limited-term contract (6-month position) Description Wellesley Institute works in research and policy to improve health and health equity in the GTA through action on the social determinants of health. Wellesley Institute is working with partners to address issues of racism and discrimination and…
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…and more important within our increasingly diverse society. Access to free and high-quality interpretation services is vital to breaking down access and quality barriers and building an equitable, effective and well-performing health system. Here is the presentation: Pre-Condition to Health Equity: Breaking Down Language Barriers View more documents from WellesleyInstitute….
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Health promotion is crucial to keeping people well and preventing illness. A major challenge is that many health promotion programs are focused on individual behaviour and do not take peoples’ unequal conditions and opportunities into account. As a result, they are not effective for vulnerable and marginalized communities, and can…
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Author: Dr. Michael Rachlis Published: November, 2007 Summary: Health equity is high on the agenda of governments and health planning authorities. Wellesley initiated a series of forums with community-based health and social service providers, researchers and others and commissioned research to flesh out what a community-based framework for addressing health…
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…impacts including mental health, chronic disease, and workplace injuries. This is seminal work that complements our ongoing work on racial disparities in the labour market and negative health outcomes (Canada’s Colour Coded Labour Market). The report concludes that addressing precarious employment conditions faced by racialized groups requires policy interventions from…
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…research, including the Street Health report, document the devastating health impact of homelessness. The health impact of precarious housing is called “Canada’s hidden emergency” by a powerful research initiative from the Centre for Research in Inner City Health at Toronto’s St Michael’s Hospital, which sets out the data and analysis…
…(English or French), face inequities in health care settings. Language interpretation services are an intervention to promote language accessibility in health care. To better understand the effectiveness of professional interpretation in health care we conducted a scoping review to examine the impact language interpretation services on patient and clinical outcomes….
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…provides a graphic snapshot of the impact of poor housing on the lives of people living in high-rises and in the city’s suburbs. Similarly, Toronto Public Health’s Unequal City documents the health impact of poor housing, poverty and inequality. During the life of the current Toronto City Council, which was…
In the summer of 2009 and 2010, 21 multi-cultural youth from St. James Town completed a Photovoice projectand disseminated their findings in a community forum that attracted the attention of news media. The goal of the arts-based project was to investigate the impact of neighbourhood on youth health and well-being….
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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.