…Health Commission of Canada, 2014. ↩ Concerns about eligibility for municipally-administered emergency housing funds are discussed in B. Gardner, S. Barnes & J. Laidley, The Real Cost of Cutting the Community Start-Up and Maintenance Benefit: A Health Equity Impact Assessment, Wellesley Institute, November 2012. Accessed Aug 15, 2014. https://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/The-Real-Cost-of-Cutting-CSUMB.pdf. ↩…
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Misdiagnosis: Drummond’s Health Care Prescription Misses Equity
…Commission’s report emphasizes patient-centred care, and this is excellent. But equity in patient-centred care means ensuring that all Ontarians have access to high quality care. The report also highlights the importance of primary care. An equity approach would ensure that expanded family health teams, community health centres and other key…
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Building Health and Equity Into Policy: Policy Orientated Health Equity Impact Assessments
Addressing “wicked” policy and social problems such as systemic health inequities and their underlying social determinants requires comprehensive and coordinated action across government and other sectors – and that needs good planning. Health equity impact assessments have been emphasized here in Ontario and in many other jurisdictions as one key…
Engaging the Community in HIA
…to home in Nova Scotia, People Assessing Their Health (PATH) has been working on Community Health Impact Assessment, where community members use storytelling and dialogue to develop their own HIA tool that reflects the values, priorities, and unique determinants of health of their community. Community-driven assessments have been carried out…
Markham, Richmond Hill need new community health centre to tackle health inequities
…work at the Wellesley Institute is health equity – the fundamental differences in health among different parts of our population – and we know that community health centres are both effective and innovative in tackling health equities. The Wellesley Institute’s Bob Gardner is a leading expert on building equity and…
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Policy Brief: Ontario Portable Benefits Program
…et al. (2021). Cost-related medication nonadherence in Canada: a systematic review of prevalence, predictors, and clinical impact. Syst Rev 10, 11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-020-01558-5 [13]. United Way Toronto. (2013). It’s More than Poverty. https://www.unitedwaygt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/more-than-poverty-report.pdf [14]. Colour of Poverty. (2019). Racialized Poverty in Employment. https://colourofpoverty.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cop-coc-fact-sheet-5-racialized-poverty-in-employment-2.pdf [15]. Wellesley Institute. Health Equity Impact Assessment. https://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/health-equity/heath-equity-impact-assessment/…
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Policy Brief: Ontario Portable Benefits Program
…et al. (2021). Cost-related medication nonadherence in Canada: a systematic review of prevalence, predictors, and clinical impact. Syst Rev 10, 11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-020-01558-5 [13]. United Way Toronto. (2013). It’s More than Poverty. https://www.unitedwaygt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/more-than-poverty-report.pdf [14]. Colour of Poverty. (2019). Racialized Poverty in Employment. https://colourofpoverty.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cop-coc-fact-sheet-5-racialized-poverty-in-employment-2.pdf [15]. Wellesley Institute. Health Equity Impact Assessment. https://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/health-equity/heath-equity-impact-assessment/…
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Toronto Central LHIN Equity Initiatives in 2010-2013 IHSP
…LHIN will also begin to collect health equity data and information related to the 5 IHSP priorities) Introduce the Health Equity Impact Assessment Tool – developed by MOHLTC and the TC LHIN – into health service provider and LHIN planning and decision-making, starting with Aging-at-Home in 2011/12 Enablers and other…
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“Now is the Season for Action”: Some Thoughts on President Obama’s Speech to the Joint Session of Congress
…to give specific details about what he believed was necessary for health care reform. Unfortunately, a 45 minute speech to the nation is a difficult time to explain the complex details of the House’s 1,000 plus page health care plan. Obama even said that while there was agreement on 80%…
Canada needs a health equity plan: 2023 federal budget submission
…to address unintended health equity impacts. The plan must include specific disaggregated targets for preventable health disparities for different equity-seeking population groups. It must identify, through consultation with those groups, which social determinants of health should be targeted first to achieve better health. It must identify which steps for each…
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