Bob Gardner, Director of Research and Policy, presented at the OPHA in November 2007 on health equity, chronic disease, and the social determinants of health. His Blueprint for Health Equity talk sets out promising policy directions and action to reduce health disparities. Here is the presentation: OPHA Symposium: Blueprint for Health Equity View more documents […]
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Bob Gardner Appointed Special Advisor on Health Equity
The Wellesley Institute’s Bob Gardner, Director of Policy and Research, has been appointed Special Advisor on Health Equity to the Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) for a three-month period.
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Thinking Globally, Acting Locally about Health Reform
As Bob Gardner explains in his recent article, Thinking Globally, Acting Locally about Health Reform (in a special edition of Making Waves), it is by understanding and focussing on health disparities on a regional basis, in particular within the structures of Regional Health Authorities, that on-the-ground strategies to reduce health disparities can be developed and
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Ontario Throne Speech and housing
The Ontario government opened the current session of the provincial Legislature on Thursday, November 29, with a promise to “begin work” on “reducing child poverty” by developing a poverty reduction strategy that would include “more affordable housing”. This promise needs to be matched with funding and programs before it will have any impact on actually […]
LHINs: Drivers of a More Equitable and Responsive Health System?
Bob Gardner spoke to the board of the Family Service Association of Toronto. The talk focussed on the potential of LHINs (Local Health Integration Networks) to support enhanced health equity, equity and related challenges to be faced in the coming period and implications for community-based service providers. Here is the presentation: LHINs: Drivers of a […]
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Poverty problems – poverty solutions
The United Way of Greater Toronto has issued a powerful new study that shows growing poverty among families in Toronto. Meanwhile, Campaign 2000 – the national child poverty group – has released its 2007 report card with a poverty reduction strategy.
Brrrrrr… it's dangerously cold!
The City of Toronto has issued its first extreme cold alert for the winter season of 2007/08 today. Many meteorologists with lots of computer power work together to make the call about extreme cold alerts, but the bottom line is that the weather can be deadly for those who are outside, such as homeless people.
Don't cannibalize TO's affordable housing stock
Toronto City Council will consider a plan to sell about 500 “scattered” affordable homes that are owned by the city on November 20, 2007. The sponsors of the scheme say that that some of the millions of dollars that would be generated from the sale could be used to re-house the 500 households, and the […]
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TO set to launch 10-year housing plan
It has been a while coming, but the City of Toronto is set to launch its 10-year housing plan on Wednesday, Nov. 7. The city's plan is called Housing Opportunities Toronto (HOT) and it comes one year after the Wellesley Institute's Blueprint to End Homelessness was launched. The HOT plan draws on many of the […]
Barbaric…
… that’s the only way to describe the urban health landscape in the United States, the richest country in the world and the self-proclaimed leader of the “free” world. I’ve been in Baltimore for the International Conference on Urban Health and on Thursday afternoon was invited to visit parts of the inner city. I visited […]