A new Wellesley Institute health equity impact assessment – The Real Cost of Casinos – shows that building a casino in Toronto will contribute to poor health in our city. Almost 560,000 Ontarians can be defined as problem gamblers and experience tells us that building new casinos increases problem gambling…
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Jobs and Income – HEIA in the Federal Election
…would improve the health of Canadians. Health Impacts of Jobs and Income Stable, secure, and adequate jobs promote good health by providing benefits, time to recover from illness, reasonable working hours, and other health-enhancing features.3 Over 900,000 Canadian involuntary part-time workers in 20144 Over 930,000 Canadian multiple jobholders in 20145…
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Health Equity Roadmap: Overview
…plans; through specific issues such as equitable access to rehabilitation services or realizing the potential of tools such as Health Equity Impact Assessment; to key system drivers such as performance measurement/management, and the necessary equity indicators and standards; to thinking about how to integrate population health into issues well beyond…
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Community Health Centres Of Greater Toronto Health Equity Plan Executive Summary
Leading LHINs (Local Health Integration Networks) in Ontario and Regional Health Authorities across the country have prioritized reducing systemic health inequities. They have encouraged and enabled comprehensive local health equity strategies and health care providers and institutions to develop equity plans. In a unique innovative example of sectoral coordination, Community…
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Community Health Centres Of Greater Toronto Health Equity Plan
Leading LHINs (Local Health Integration Networks) in Ontario and Regional Health Authorities across the country have prioritized reducing systemic health inequities. They have encouraged and enabled comprehensive local health equity strategies and health care providers and institutions to develop equity plans. In a unique innovative example of sectoral coordination, Community…
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Wellesley Institute Policy Position – Housing
…meet these needs should be swiftly studied through publicly available Health Equity Impact Assessments to propose tax, funding, legal, and policy changes. NEED Everyone should have access to housing that is stable, suitable for their wellbeing, and affordable. A wealth of research shows that lack of housing, poor housing quality,…
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We’re all about health equity… to the back teeth
…disadvantaged communities. We asked that if the analysis determined that an adverse and differential outcome was possible, then a Health Equity Impact Assessment should be conducted. We at the Wellesley Institute agree that it is important to have discussions about what works and what doesn’t work in our city. However,…
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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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Access to housing – HEIA in the Federal Election
…was $840, 44 percent cheaper.16 For people with mental health issues or who have experienced chronic homelessness, stable affordable housing results in significant savings in use of health and emergency services.17 Health Impacts of Housing Affordable, safe, and adequate housing has a direct and significant impact on people’s health. Ample…
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Policy position: Housing
…these needs should be swiftly studied through publicly available Health Equity Impact Assessments to propose tax, funding, legal, and policy changes. NEED Everyone should have access to housing that is stable, suitable for their wellbeing, and affordable. A wealth of research shows that lack of housing, poor housing quality, and…