This guide from the American Public Health Association provides a comprehensive overview of the link between climate change and population health, the impact on groups already at a disadvantage due to structural inequities, and core public health roles to address climate change and population health inequities.
This practice tool from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) outlines five steps to help integrate health equity into existing and new public health interventions. It prompts users to identify equity elements relevant to their intervention and ways to address them.
This 18-item Self-Evaluation Tool for Action in Partnership allows partners collaboratively working on a specific project to evaluate the strength of their partnership with respect to six conditions of effective partnership.
The British Columbia Centre for Disease Control’s Healthy Built Environment Linkages Toolkit synthesizes current research on five core “features” of the built environment and addresses how these features influence population health.
Cet outil d’autoformation s’adresse aux cadres intermédiaires du secteur de la santé publique, quelles que soient leur expérience professionnelle, leur discipline ou la période d’occupation de leur poste. L’outil permet d’enrichir les connaissances, les compétences et les caractéristiques dont ont besoin ces cadres intermédiaires pour élaborer et exécuter des stratégies et des interventions destinées à réduire les iniquités de santé.
The Pan-Canadian Health Inequalities Reporting Initiative’s health inequalities data tool is a user-friendly, web-based tool that can be used to inform decisions relating to surveillance, research, programming and policies that address health inequities among population groups in Canada.
This resource (in English) from the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control offers tools, information and practice guidance to support environmental public health (EPH) practitioners as they take action on health equity.
REFLEX-ISS is a discussion tool intended to facilitate the conversation on how to incorporate considerations of social inequalities in health into routine projects.
A framework and user guide have been developed for environmental public health staff, and other public health agencies or departments that deal with environmental health issues, to help identify potential actions on the social determinants of health and health equity.
This guide offers ideas—with stories to illustrate— for how public health can work with communities to build organizational capacity, develop partnerships and coalitions, and make the case for health equity.
