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.
As part of the World Health Organization (WHO) European Health Equity Status Report initiative, a scientific expert review asked why more progress had not been made on advancing health equity in the region. The review also identified four key drivers of health equity: accountability, policy coherence, social participation and empowerment.
This collection of resources created jointly by Alliance for Healthier Communities and Access Alliance was developed to support organization-level capacity to address health inequities in healthcare access and quality, as well as health outcomes in community health services.
This website from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) serves as an entry point to access resources, tools and evidence supporting interventions that address social determinants of health. The tools are designed to be used by public health and community and healthcare organizations.
The Health Inequities Series is a set of fact sheets designed by Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Public Health. They are meant to support professional development and competence in understanding and applying the underlying concepts related to SDH and health inequities and how they relate to public health program standards.
This report by the Pan American Health Organization’s Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas examines social and economic inequalities in the regions, and considers several related factors such as gender, sexuality, ethnicity, disability, and daily living conditions. An expanded list of the structural drivers of inequities also play prominently into the analysis.
Four fact sheets from La Chaire de recherche du Canada Approches communautaires et inégalités de santé (CACIS) presenting the findings of literature reviews on housing, the food environment, community life and sustainable mobility.
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 policy brief from the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) provides an overview of the concept of proportionate universality, how it applies to child health and the importance of shifting the social gradient through universal and targeted programs for early childhood development.
This series of five short videos from the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) is designed to help public health inspectors (aka environmental health officers) provide basic information on how the social determinants of health and health equity apply to environmental public health practice.
