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Health Equity Clicks: Roles for Public Health

Entries are categorized based on four roles for public health to address the determinants of health as described in the Environmental Scan and by geography. These roles include:

  • report
    Report and Assess
    Reporting/ assessing on the health of populations and describing health inequalities and inequities and effective strategies to address those inequalities and inequities. no-text
  • intervene
    Modify and Re-orient
    Modifying and re/orienting interventions to reduce health inequities including the unique needs and capacities of priority populations. no-text
  • engage
    Engage and Collaborate
    Engaging in community and multi-sectoral collaboration to address the health needs of priority populations through services and programs. no-text
  • advocate
    Lead and Support
    Leading/participating and supporting other stakeholders in policy analysis, development and advocacy for improvements in the health determinants/inequities. no-text

This resource builds upon the Integrating Social Determinants of Health and Health Equity into Canadian Public Health Practice - Environmental Scan conducted by the National Collaborating Centre for the Determinants of Health in 2010 by identifying public health organizations that are addressing the determinants of health to improve health equity in Canada.

This resource will be of interest to public health practitioners and researchers across the country, and is designed to:

  • Enhance knowledge about key players that support action on the determinants of health
  • Increase connections among public health professionals who address health equity. This list is a preliminary scan of public health and health organizations that are taking action on the social determinants of health and advancing health equity.

Organizations were identified by:

  • Reviewing organizations included in the Environmental Scan undertaken in 2010
  • Conducting online searches using key words relevant to the social determinants of health and health equity. Criteria included:
    • Organizations with a public health focus (e.g. public health units, public/population health research and policy organizations)
    • Explicit online mention of the social determinants of health and/or health equity
  • Searching for organizations across the country to ensure Pan-Canadian coverage
  • Consultations with public health practitioners

The list is non-comprehensive as Canadian contributions to determinants of health and health equity are continuously evolving and progressing. The numerous partnerships and networks involved in advancing health equity make describing and categorizing the contributions difficult. Furthermore, it focuses on public health and closely-related health organizations and does not include the myriad of organizations outside of health that are instrumental and important for action on the social determinants of health.

This is a work in progress, and we welcome your input, comments, corrections, updates and additions. We would like to encourage you to help us strengthen this resource by emailing us your suggestions at nccdh@stfx.ca. We will update this list on a quarterly basis based on feedback received with the goal of making it as useful as possible to practitioners and researchers in the field.

This resource was researched and authored by Michael Fay, Fay Martin and Susan Snelling.

Staff at the NCCDH coordinated the development and review of the resource including Sume Ndumbe-Eyoh, Hannah Moffatt, Lesley Dyck, Pemma Muzumdar and Claire Betker.

External review was provided by Theresa Bartraw, Trish Hill, Lynn Langille and Charmaine McPherson.

French Translation: Liane Alessi

Graphics and Web Design: Kim s2uared Inc.

Please cite information contained in this resource as follows:

National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health. (date retrieved). Health Equity Clicks: Organizations taking Action on the Social Determinants of Health. Antigonish, NS: National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health, St. Francis Xavier University.

Production of this resource has been made possible through a financial contribution from the Public Health Agency of Canada through funding for the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH).

The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the Public Health Agency of Canada.

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