This report provides an assessment of the risks of climate change to the health of Canadians and to the health care system, and of adaptation options. Led by Health Canada, it was released 2022.
Health inequalities are, in large part, the product of inequalities in the conditions in which we are born, grow, live, work and age – the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). This learning report focusses on innovative approaches taken by four provider trusts within the UCLPartners geography that are acting on the SDOH within their healthcare settings, and common lessons from their work.
This toolkit includes a menu of indicators, categorised by 11 areas of anchor activity. To support the practice application of the indicators the toolkit also includes their potential ease of measurement, and their suitability for ongoing collection.
A Report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity is the first in a series of consensus reports to emerge from the National Academy of Medicine’s Culture of Health Program.
This webinar features the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care, PEACH Health Ontario, CASCADES, and Nourish welcoming speakers Elísabet H. Brynjarsdóttir and Lindi Close, master’s graduates of UBC, who present on the integration of plant-rich menus within hospitals and long-term care centres. It also features Marianne Katusin, Director of Support Services at Halton Healthcare, who speaks about the process of integrating plant-based choices into hospital menus, and Hayley Lapalme, Co-Executive Director of Nourish, who discusses Nourish’s new Planetary Health Menus climate program designed to help institutions reduce their food-related emissions.
The framework outlines the project partners’ roles in climate change and health adaptation and presents recommendations that correspond to the risks identified in the vulnerability and capacity assessment as well as during engagement with our many collaborators and advisors. This framework is meant to communicate health authority priorities to internal and external audiences, and to enable action planning at the program level within and between each of the four partner organizations.
This document comprises a comprehensive standard set for Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services. It will be accompanied by documents that operationalize the standards and provide concrete measurable elements, against which performance can be measured.
