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A Health Equity Strategy for the Toronto Central LHIN

The Toronto Central LHIN has just released a Health Equity Discussion Paper, outlining a comprehensive and strategic approach to implementing effective health equity activities. The discussion paper, authored by Bob Gardner - the Wellesley Institute’s Director of Policy and Research, provides a 12-point action plan and accompanying recommendations designed to address and reduce inequitable access to healthcare, target disadvantaged communities and critical barriers, and encourage system change and innovation to engender and environment for equity in Toronto.

Health Equity Discussion Paper
Health Equity Discussion Paper - Executive Summary

In early 2008 Bob Gardner, Director of Policy and Research, was appointed Special Advisor on Health Equity to the Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) for a three-month period. We believe the Health Equity Discussion Paper is a key contribution to the growing debate regarding health equity, and help community-based health organizations work toward developing research and community-based policy solutions to the problems of urban health and health disparities.

Health Equity Now: A Working Paper on the Best First Steps for Ontario

Commissioned by the Wellesley Institute, this paper provides an overview of the work of a group of community-based service providers, policy analysts, researchers and advocates active in health equity in Ontario. These individuals were brought together by the Wellesley Institute and are part of the Wellesley Community Roundtables on Health Equity.

Racialized People’s Perceptions of and Responses to Differential Health Care

This report exlpores emerging research which shows that the main determinants of health are not medical but rather social and economic, with special attention paid to health determinants such as racism and racial discrimination.