PHESC 1: Introduction to Health Equity
Date and time
Location
Online
Description
- 2191 days 23 hours
The National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH) has launched the first of its Public Health Training for Equitable Systems Change (PHESC) suite of trainings with this introductory on-demand webinar about health equity.
This on-demand webinar describes key health equity concepts, including:
- health
- health equity and inequities
- social justice
- social gradients in health
The webinar explains why health equity is important to public health practice and encompasses the concepts of intersectionality and how social determinants of health intersect.
Click here to learn more about the webinar and to access pre-readings and additional resources.
For more information, email nccdh@stfx.ca.
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Integrating health equity and the social determinants of health into Canadian public health practice.
At the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH), we provide the Canadian public health community with knowledge and resources to take action on the social determinants of health, to close the gap between those who are most and least healthy.
We work with the public health field to move knowledge into action—in practice, in policy and in decision making—to achieve societal improvements that result in health for all.
We are one of six national collaborating centres funded through a Public Health Agency of Canada program.
We are hosted at St. Francis Xavier University (StFX) in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, which has a rich history in social justice beginning in the 1920s with the Antigonish Movement through to the founding of the Coady International Institute after WWII. The Institute is well respected worldwide as a centre for leadership education about community-based development. Situating the NCCDH here furthers StFX’s deep commitment to applying knowledge to social change.