This toolkit from Ontario Dietitians in Public Health (ODPH) offers resources and ideas for secondary school students to develop awareness raising campaigns for food insecurity. The goal is to promote campaigns that focus on income-based strategies to address food insecurity and discourage a focus on food charity as a solution.
This webinar took place in English. The National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH) and Health Promotion Canada (HPC) are collaborating on a series of webinars to highlight several chapters of the recently released book Health Promotion in Canada 4th edition: New Perspectives on Theory, Practice, Policy, and Research. The goal is to explore how various themes in this book apply to
A seven-part documentary series exploring racial and socioeconomic determinants of health, this resource aims to increase the urgency of the public conversation around issues influencing health outcomes.
This video is a great introduction to how the social determinants of health, a complex web of interconnected and dynamic social factors, can and do affect our health and well-being.
Hurdles to Health is a personal narrative about a Saskatoon family, shared by a wife and mother of a low-income household. This video shows the family’s daily struggles caused by the barriers poverty creates to achieving overall health and wellbeing.
This document applies common messaging guidelines to the challenge of communicating the connection between income inequality and health inequality. The guidelines were published by the Canadian Council on the Social Determinants of Health.
This “briefing note” presents the mixed evidence about the effectiveness of using social media to change people’s health-related behaviours. In presents the evidence on best practices in social media messaging whether social media is a more equitable way to reach all population groups.
Health Evidence in partnership with the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health will be hosting a 90 minute webinar funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (KTB-112487), on interventions to improve the health of adults with limited literacy, presenting key messages, and implications for practice on Wednesday October 31, 2012 at 1:00 pm
Improving health literacy is about offering people tools and creating environments that allow them to have control over their own health. This paper offers a framework for improving the health literacy of Canadians.
This report identifies and summarizes research on the impacts of family literacy on health.
