Determining Health: Migrant health issue brief
Immigration status is a significant yet often overlooked determinant of health. This issue brief outlines the health and health equity impacts of immigration status for migrants in Canada to build understanding and guide public health planning, policy and action.
Podcast episode transcript & companion documents
Season 2 companion documents are now available. Whether you missed an episode or want to dive deeper into the discussion, you can now read along with key quotes, related resources and discussion questions to support reflection, sharing and action.
Mind the Disruption: An NCCDH Project
On Mind the Disruption, the new NCCDH podcast, you’ll hear the stories of people who have disrupted the usual ways of doing things in their organizations, communities, and society in pursuit of better health for all.
Welcome to the NCCDH
Supporting the Canadian public health community to address the structural and social determinants of health and advance health equity for all.
The National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH) works to move knowledge into action on the conditions of daily life in which people are born, grow up, live, work, play, learn, and age and the driving forces that shape these conditions – the structural and social determinants of health.
NCCDH supports uptake and integration of relevant knowledge and evidence in public health practice, programs and policy through development of evidence-informed resources, exchanging promising practices with the Canadian public health community and bringing together diverse voices and multisectoral perspectives.
New NCCDH Resources
Toward a safe and healthy place to call home
This document summarizes results from a 2023–2024 survey of Ontario public health unit practices to promote healthy housing. Highlights of survey results are presented alongside public health roles and promising practices to address inadequate and unhealthy housing conditions as a determinant of health and key driver of health inequity.
Determining Health: Migrant health issue brief
Immigration status is a significant yet often overlooked determinant of health. This issue brief outlines the health and health equity impacts of immigration status for migrants in Canada to build understanding and guide public health planning, policy and action.
Determining Health: Food justice practice brief
This practice brief describes key dimensions of and action on food justice as a public health priority. It provides a framework of eight principles of food justice, with a description and concrete actions for each, to guide practice.
The determinants of health: A curated list
This curated resource list highlights resources that support a broad understanding of how various factors that influence health have been conceptualized. The selected documents complement the NCCDH resource Let’s Talk: Determinants of health.
Health equity frameworks as a tool to support public health action: A curated list
This curated resource list presents 10 actionable health equity frameworks, covering a range of topics where public health action is required (e.g., racism, climate change). The list includes resources on other issues that require framework users must consider such as anti-oppression and critical allyship.
Determining Health: Food systems issue brief
This issue brief describes key concepts needed to understand what food systems are and why they matter for public health in the Canadian context. Drawing on peer-reviewed and grey literature, it further explains how food systems impact health inequities.