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Healthy aging in Canada: a new vision, a vital investment from evidence to action
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Identifies and suggests five key areas of healthy aging. Highlights social connectedness, physical activity, healthy eating, falls prevention and tobacco control. Prepared for the Healthy Aging and Wellness Working Group of the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Committee of Officials (Seniors). Link requires PDF reader.
- Source: Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
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Neighbourhood environments and resources for healthy living - A focus on diabetes in Toronto: ICES atlas
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Analyzes the role of neighbourhoods in the diabetes epidemic. Examines factors related to diabetes prevention and control in Toronto, including population density, immigration, socio-economic status, ethnicity, crime rates, car ownership, access to healthy and unhealthy food, opportunities for physical activity, and access to health care. Recommends measures to address these factors.
- Source: Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES)
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Women & the economy
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Provides information on women's economic inequality and poverty. Looks at how different women experience the economy and presents the personal stories of Manitoban women. Proposes economic alternatives.
- Source: UN Platform for Action Committee Manitoba (UNPAC)
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Canadian population health e-learning course: an introduction to population health
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Provides an online course on population health issues as an introduction to the field. Includes an overview of the elements of population health, including definitions, key concepts and goals. Highlights the concept of the social determinants of health, key elements of a population health perspective.
- Source: Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
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Achieving health equity: from root causes to fair outcomes
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Presents the interim statement of the Commission on the Social Determinants of Health midway through its mandate. Sets out the Commission's vision and goals, the problems it seeks to ameliorate, and the intellectual foundation for a social determinants approach. Link requires PDF reader.
- Source: World Health Organization (WHO)
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Health equity into policy action: FAQs
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Uses frequenty asked questions to present a basic overview of healthy equity. Defines the concept and why it is important, and identifies issues, challenges and promising initiatives and programs designed to address health disparities. Link requires PDF reader.
- Source: Wellesley Institute
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Wellesley Institute
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Works to be a leader and a catalyst for enhancing the wellness and health of the people of southeast Toronto and other urban communities. Advances the social determinants of health through rigorous community-based research, training in capacity building, and the informing of public policy.
- Source: Wellesley Institute
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Primer to action: social determinants of health
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Provides a resource for health professionals, lay workers, volunteers, and activists to help initiate action on the social determinants of health within an organization, group, or community. Focuses on the link between chronic disease and six social determinants. Link requires PDF reader.
- Source: Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance (OCDPA)
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Ethnicity and health: an analysis of physical health differences across twenty-one ethnocultural groups in Canada
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Describes research into ethnocultural-based health inequalities in Canada, and if these differences reflect variation in social and health-related behavioural environments. Includes 21 ethnocultural groups to provide a comprehensive analysis of ethnicity and physical health in Canada. Link requires PDF reader.
- Source: McMaster University, Faculty of Social Sciences
- From: SEDAP: Social and Economic Dimensions of an Aging Population
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Their future is now: healthy choices for Canada's children & youth
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Reviews government commitments to improving child and youth health; provides a snapshot of the health status of Canada's youth and children; highlights some strategies that are being used to help children and youth, and the ingredients that make these strategies successful. Link requires PDF reader.
- Source: Health Council of Canada
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