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.
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.
This report from the House of Commons Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs analyzes the housing crisis facing Indigenous Peoples in Canada, including its physical and mental health impacts. The report presents 20 recommendations to address systemic inequities and support long-term, sustainable and self-determined housing solutions.
This position statement explores the issue of weight bias, stigma and discrimination; its intersection with other forms of oppression; and the role of public health to shift toward a weight-inclusive approach to advance health equity.
Every vaccination holds the potential to improve the state of Canadians’ physical, mental, societal and economic health. This report from the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada presents a guide to improving vaccination uptake and public health practice in Canada.
To influence the structural and social determinants of health and advance health equity, public health must support power building in communities facing inequities. This Let’s Talk introduces community organizing as an effective and critical tool for building community power.
Supporting health equity for the well-being and fullest development of 2SLGBTQ+ French-speaking individuals in a minority language context.
Promoting the health and well-being of members of the 2SLGBTQ+ French-speaking community, through community engagement and a diagnostic tool.
Increase use and equitable enjoyment of public spaces, to reduce gender inequities rooted in the built environment.
This resource explores the role of the social determinants of health public health nurse in Ontario since 2015. The findings of this study describe a compelling opportunity for public health units across Canada to enable public health nurses to meaningfully address the structural and social determinants of health and advance health equity.
