Community planning with a health equity lens : Aménagement des collectivités dans la perspective de l'équité sanitaire : orientations et stratégies prometteuses

Applying an promotion and intervention.1,2 This document equity lens to community health examines ways in which local community planning can encourage greater focus planning initiatives not only address health but on the process, the implications, and can also make equity in health a priority. [...] Available data suggest six ways an equity lens can be applied to community planning for health: involve community members in 1 School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia 1. community planning efforts to promote health equity Public Health Advisory Committee has recommended and to outline the ways in which an equity lens has that local councils undertake community planni [...] Since the focus is address health promotion priorities.10 on process of community planning and its implications for health equity, various outcomes that may arise A recent review of health inequities research (1986 to from community planning processes (e.g., changes to 2006) revealed that while there is a large knowledge the built environment, delivery of health services) are base on health inequi [...] Efforts to create vibrant and healthy communities, cities, and neighbourhoods are Community planning prominent in a number of initiatives: the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Healthy Cities program; area- For the purposes of this review, community planning based interventions in the United Kingdom; Healthy is defined as a process that: addresses the needs of a Communities networks in Quebec, Ont [...] For example, in Governance through community planning represents England, community planning has been targeted in a novel way to address multi-faceted issues at the the regions of the country with poorer health local city or neighbourhood level.6 However, the power outcomes and higher levels of deprivation.