A collaborative project between the National Collaborating Centres for Determinants of Health (NCCDH) and for Healthy Public Policy (NCCHPP), this document provides examples of the tools and approaches to health equity that have been adopted or applied by the public...

Developmental science has shown the lifelong importance of early years on human learning, behaviour, and physical and mental health. Interventions that support developmental health from birth to age five contribute to establishing the foundations for a healthy life...

In 2003, a group of persons living in poverty compared society to a landing from which one escalator goes up and another escalator goes down. “Poverty” they essentially told some parliamentarians, “is like having to go up a down escalator. Instead of...

This document presents a description of the five key frames used respectively by Quint Development Corporation and the Saskatoon Health Region in discussions of the communities, particularly the city’s lowest income neighbourhoods, they serve. These frames...

The National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy asked researchers at the Centre Léa Roback, a research centre on health inequalities, to report on programs and policies in Canada whose results were evaluated according to evidence-based standards, including...

The NCCHPP conducted an analysis of the Canadian media from 2008 for coverage of news or information on health inequalities. We have produced a full report and a summary version. 2008 was a banner year for the study and discussion of health inequalities in public...