Health Equity Workshop - Introductions

Sharing your passion for health equity: Building our collective understanding

April 9, 2013Charlottetown, PEI

Welcome from the Board of Directors

Pleased to partner and co-hostworkshop on healthequity

Incorporated in 2008

Beginnings 2003:

Health promotion summer institutes had proven successful in other regions

Recent research had provided a comprehensive health profile of Atlantic Canada

Increasing evidence of need for intersectoral partnerships to address common problems

Since 2004 – a focal point for learning and training in Atlantic Canada; intersectoral networking and collaboration; a facilitator of research; a promoter of healthy and sustainable policies; and a catalyst for social justice and equity.

Focus - building regional capacity for healthy and safe communities by addressing the linkages between the determinants of health and the root causes of crime and victimization.

Looking to the future – The 2014 Atlantic Summer Institute

on Healthy and Safe Communities

Renewing Democracy Through Social Justice: Adding New Voices

Charlottetown, August 19-22

Inquiries: asi@thequaich.pe.ca

www.asi-iea.ca

Public Health Association of NB-PEI

• CPHA is the only Canadian, non-governmental organization focused solely on public health. – An independent voice.

• The PHA of NB-PEI, founded in 1952, is one of 11 Provincial and Territorial public health associations that works to

further the mission of CPHA.

Public Health Association of NB-PEI

• Mission: – To support our provinces (NB, PEI) in the

continual improvement of population and public health principles through leadership, advocacy, and education.

• Governance:– 9-member Board of Directors– 6 from NB, 3 from PE

Public Health Association of NB-PEI

• Activities:– Professional Development

• Webinars• Events like today (NCCDH, NCCMT, CIPHI)

– Biennial Conference• October 25-26, 2012 in Frederiction, NB• 2014 to be held in Charlottetown, PE

• All our work is carried out by our

members on a volunteer basis.

Join us today!

Karen Fish (kfish@stfx.ca) & Hannah Moffatt (hmoffatt@stfx.ca), Knowledge Translation Specialists

Heidi Sinclair, Communications

Connie Clement, Scientific Director

National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health,St Francis Xavier University,Antigonish, Nova Scotiawww.nccdh.ca

About the National Collaborating Centres for Public Health (NCCPH)

• We translate existing and new evidence into knowledge that is meaningful, accessible and relevant to public health practitioners and decision makers

• We foster and promote local, regional, national and international networks to facilitate the exchange of knowledge between public health community, researchers and others

National Collaborating Centres for Public Health

National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health - NCCDH

• Focuses on the social and economic factors that influence the health of Canadians in order to advance health equity

• Translates and shares evidence with public health organizations and practitioners

• Works to advance knowledge, foster knowledge use, and accelerate network development

Event Objectives

• Increase understanding of the social determinants of health and health equity

• Increase knowledge of policies and programs that create more equitable conditions for health

• Explore how public health practitioners can improve the conditions that lead to health

• Connect with others in PEI doing health equity and social determinant of health work

Agenda

• Warm up exercise • Video: Let’s start a conversation about health…• Break (10:35 – 10:45am)• Presentation: 10 Promising practices • Progressive disclosure case study• Lunch (12 – 12:50pm) • PEI showcase • Presentation: Leadership for health equity • Circular questions & closure • End of day (3pm)

VIDEO Let’s start a conversation about health … and not talk

about health care at all

• What did you think of the video?

• Could you use it in your work?

Video links

• GASHA - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GElWk2xYvI

• Summary in NCCDH Resource Library: http://nccdh.ca/resources/entry/lets-start-a-conversation-about-health-and-not-talk-about-health-care-at-al