…groups who wanted access to culturally and linguistically appropriate services. We documented how inadequate provision of care negatively impacts not just seniors, but their family and caregivers – and the costs it imposes on our acute healthcare system. We called for a New Normal with an expansion of person-centred and…
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Election 2022: Good jobs, mental health and anti-racism
Our previous New Normal Election Analysis pieces examined seniors’ care and income inequality. Below, we look at provincial party commitments towards creating good jobs, improving mental health, and addressing anti-racism and health system equity. Good Jobs A good job is crucial for health, and for equity. It consumes so much…
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Driving Health on the Gardiner
…of a policy or program decision, while Health Equity Impact Assessments analyze potential to influence health inequities and/or the health of disadvantaged populations. Undertaking a health impact assessment and a health equity impact assessment is the only way that city councillors can be confident that their decisions won’t worsen health…
Jobs and Poverty Reduction: HEIA in the 2014 Mayoral Election
…our Jobs and Poverty Reduction Health Equity Impact Assessment City of Toronto, 2011 National Household Survey: Income and Shelter Costs, September 2013. Accessed Aug 15, 2014. http://www1.toronto.ca/City%20Of%20Toronto/Social%20Development,%20Finance%20&%20Administration/Shared%20Content/Demographics/PDFs/Reports/nhs-backgrounder-income-shelter.pdf. ↩ Alliance for a Poverty-Free Toronto, Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change, Ontario Campaign 200 & Social…
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Moving forward on a national health data system
…clear to everyone in Canada that we must drastically improve our health-care system, including in the delivery of services, equitable virtual care, public health communication, addressing the healthcare workforce shortage, and advancing research. Evidence has long demonstrated inequalities in health for marginalized populations including low income groups, Indigenous groups, people…
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An Ambitious Plan to Reform US Health Care
…two additional health care bills. Clearly, the health care reform battle is far from over. But the House Democrats have learned from the Massachusetts reforms and made an ambitious, realistic and significant proposal to reduce the number of uninsured Americans and increase access to health care in the near future….
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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Budget submission 2022: Prioritizing health equity
…serious equity strategy for Canada. This 2022 Budget Submission will outline what needs to go into a national Health Equity Plan, then illustrate how that Plan should work in four crucial areas for equitable progress – child care, mental health, housing, poverty and job creation. A Health Equity Plan For…
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A Critical Element of U.S. Health Care Reform That is Being Ignored
…Institute of Medicine’s groundbreaking 2003 report entitled Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. However, while pending House and Senate health care reform proposals actually include elements designed to significantly reduce health disparities, those elements – and the need to address health disparities – have been lost…
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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…