Access, Equity and Social Justice
The mission of the Access, Equity and Social Justice workgroup is to enhance awareness of health inequities and diversity issues and assist with building capacity within the public health sector to understand and address these issues through Public Health programs and policies.
The workgroup’s activities followed two directions in the year 2007-2008:
- developing tools to assist with diversity competence building, and
- ensuring a greater presence of these issues in the creation of the new mandates for Ontario’s health units.
Activities the group engaged in during the 2007-2008 period included:
- writing and submitting an advocacy paper that argued for the inclusion of surveillance and assessment of health inequities in the new Ontario Public Health Standards and Protocols;
- providing input to the new draft standards and proposed protocols;
- completing a Learning Outline for the Diversity Competent Public Health Professionals; and
- developing an annotated bibliography on resources on Access, Equity and Social Justice.
To view these and other Access and Equity-related resources, please click on the Resources link in the red Links box on the right of the screen.
Links
- Chair:
Daniela Seskar-Hencic
Phone: 519-883-2258 - Resources: Access & Equity
- 2006 Position Paper