The following resources are particularly useful for planning how results of assessments can be integrated into policy development.
Templates and User Guides for Equity-Focused Impact Assessment
A number of jurisdictions have developed tools, templates, and user guides for equity-focused impact assessment:
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Harm Reduction, Housing, and Homelessness
Jacques Tremblay, Action Consulting Released: July, 2009 Commissioned by the Wellesley Institute, this research explores alternatives to shared housing as a transitional strategy through a harm reduction model that views chronic homelessness as a health and housing problem.
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Two-tiered primary care: Québec leads the way
The CMA’s annual meeting began on Sunday and will continue until tomorrow. This year’s theme: transformation of the health care system. There’s no denying that our system needs to change -we can all agree on that. The question is, to what? Imagine this. You are sitting in a gorgeous white and chocolate-colored leather arm chair. […]
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Ontario’s Health-Based Allocation Model Through An Equity Lens
Authors: Dr. Michael Rachlis and Bob Gardner Released: June, 2008 Summary: The Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care is implementing the Health Based Allocation Model (HBAM) to fund the province’s new Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs). This paper, Commissioned by the Wellesley Institute, paper explores this new model through an health equity perspective. […]
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Federal government once again boycotts critical national housing summit
Provincial and territorial housing ministers are meeting August 20 in St John’s, NL, but the federal housing minister has rejected an invitation to join the national summit. It is the second time the federal government has refused to meet with provincial housing counterparts in two years.
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Critical Characteristics Of Supported Housing
Principal Organizations: University of Toronto Partner Organizations: Toronto Branch ,Canadian Mental Health Association Principal Investigator(s): Bonnie Kirsh, PhD Critical Characteristics of Supported Housing: Findings from the Literature, Residents, and Service Providers lays the foundation for the development of principles that can be used to guide Supported Housing programming and that can continue to be examined in […]
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Towards Effective Strategies In Harm Reduction Housing
The Fred Victor Centre Released: July, 2009 This new enabling grant research examines the strengths and weaknesses of Housing First programs for individuals who are using substances.
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The European Portal for Action on Health Equity
The European Portal for Action on Health Equity is a tool for promoting health equity within the European Union (EU). This website contains a large amount of information on existing policies and programs that have been implemented to improve health equity by targeting the social determinants of health. The information contained in the website is […]
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Back to the Future? Spectre of Clintoncare hangs over Obama’s Health Care Reform
As a Canadian who has studied U.S. health policy but now works as a policy analyst at the Wellesley Institute in Toronto, I find that Canadians are very interested in potential health care reforms going on South of the border. One of the questions that I am asked most frequently is what the differences are […]
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