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Equity in environmental health practice : À l'équité dans les activités du secteur de la santé environmentale : résultats d'une étude pilote

18 Mar 2015

Equity in EnvironmEntal HEaltH PracticE: Findings oF a Pilot study summary • Patterns in the distribution of the social determinants of health (SDH) create inequities in the health of populations and communities. [...] In March 2013, in differential exposure to health risks and vulnerability to representatives of the National Collaborating Centres for conditions that compromise health and well-being, creating Public Health identified a need to support PHIs to effectively health inequities. [...] Protocol points to a need to “build capacity among public health practitioners to understand the principles of health Business owners or facilities operators may face disparities equity and social justice, develop critical analysis skills, related to income, language, or education that create and apply health equity approaches and tools.”7 Although barriers to compliance with many of the regulatio [...] It aims to identify ways increased knowledge of how the SDH relate to the practice of to assist PHIs incorporate health equity considerations into PHIs, to identify resources that can support the incorporation regulatory practice by meeting the following objectives: of equity considerations into regulatory practice, and to inform 1). [...] Supporting PHIs to SDH would, theoretically, create conditions in which breaches build interpersonal relationships with other environmental of health protection are unlikely to occur, and therefore health protection staff and formalizing collaboration with decrease the need for enforcement.6 Training PHIs on how other branches of public health will allow them to draw on to address the SDH and heal
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ISBN
9781987901061
Pages
16
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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