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Health Equity Roadmap Flip Sheet

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One major focus of WI work has been to analyze the underlying foundations of health disparities and to identify the necessary policy changes that can build towards greater health equity. The Health Equity Roadmap is a guide to help tackle the roots of health disparity.

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Building Equity In: Hospital Planning And Service Delivery

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Hospitals are a vital part of the health care system. Some hospitals have developed equity plans and made strong commitments to meeting the needs of health disadvantaged populations, and ensuring equitable access and quality  in their services and within their organizations; others less so. This is a short briefing note on pressures hospitals will be […]

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E-Health, Health Promotion And Health Equity

Matt Kanter |

The proliferation of electronic health information technology (e-health) tools is crucial to progressive and responsive health reform. However, while more comprehensive electronic health records and more efficient health care delivery are important, e-health implementation must also focus on reducing stark health disparities and ensuring equitable access for all to e-health tools and the quality improvements […]

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Health Equity Lessons From The United States

Matt Kanter |

Canadians generally think of the United States as a place with severe and worsening health disparities–especially since 45.7 million Americans continue to lack health insurance. It may come as a shock to most Canadians that they can learn anything about health equity from their neighbours to the south. But Congress is currently debating health care reforms […]

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Contradictions: Health Equity And Women’s Health Services In Toronto

Tamara Daly, Hugh Armstrong, Susan Braedley and Vanessa Oliver |

Authors: Tamara Daly PhD, Hugh Armstrong PhD, Susan Braedley MSW, and Vanessa Oliver MA. Released: October 2008 Summary: Research commissioned by the Wellesley Institute, this report looks at Health Equity and Women’s Health Services in Toronto  

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Health Equity Now: A Working Paper On The Best First Steps For Ontario

Margot Lettner |

Commissioned by the Wellesley Institute, this paper provides an overview of the work of a group of community-based service providers, policy analysts, researchers and advocates active in health equity in Ontario. These individuals were brought together by the Wellesley Institute and are part of the Wellesley Community Roundtables on Health Equity.

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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.