Based on interviews with tenants who have been racially and economically marginalized and who are organizing to build power, this article makes the case that community organizing contributes to improved housing conditions, leading to healthier and more equitable communities.
This rapid review seeks to understand how Whiteness shapes the Canadian nursing profession. Examples of how polices, practices and ideas uphold Whiteness and implications for leadership were synthesized from literature.
Community organizing can advance health equity and influence the social and structural determinants of health. This rapid review uncovers the benefits, challenges and outcomes of public health partnering with community-organizing groups and/or applying community-organizing methods.
This study finds that workers with disabilities in Canada are roughly twice as likely to be in low-quality employment compared to workers without disabilities. The study contributes to our understanding of inequities in the Canadian labour market and can inform public health action to support decent work for all workers — an important social determinant of health.
Public health teams and their partners can use the Systematic Equity Action-Analysis (SEA) framework to reflect on — and improve — how equity is integrated into programs, services, policies, engagement processes and more.
This article presents a leadership for health equity framework that centres concepts of equity, diversity and inclusion. The authors developed this integrated framework to address the limitations of traditional health leadership development programs to better prepare leaders to disrupt root causes of inequities.
Drawing from a review of social and political theories, this paper provides a refined, clear and practical definition of the structural determinants of health. The authors make the case that interventions to address the social and structural determinants of health differ because interventions in the latter shift power relations.
In this important contribution to the peer-reviewed literature, a group of Indigenous scholars, practitioners, land and water defenders, respected Elders, and Knowledge Holders from around the world describe the determinants of planetary health.
This study by Kinitz et al. reports that lesbian, gay and bisexual workers are more likely to be precariously employed in Canada. The public health community has a role to advance decent work — an important social determinant of health — for all workers, including 2SLGBTQI+ workers.
This article employs the metaphor that settler colonialism functions as a net with innumerable “colonial knots” that Indigenous Peoples in Canada are trapped within and that prevent them from being able to exercise self-determination and sovereignty. The authors propose that the work of health leaders to dismantle Indigenous-specific racism, White supremacy and settler colonialism requires dedicated, everyday efforts to “untie colonial knots.”
