In the News

• Meet the Canadian doctor who prescribes money to low-income patients Boosting people's incomes to help boost their health outcomes - could this model work in the US? Sigal Samuel, Vox.com, May 3, 2019.

Organizations

• Winnipeg Regional Health Authority - Health Equity focuses on closing the gap between those experiencing the best and those experiencing the poorest health by building partnerships, exchanging ideas and processes, and working with community stakeholders.
• Manitoba College of Family Physicians - Resources  contains links to Clinical Practice Guidelines database, Manitoba Government health care report card, CME rebate program, and other new services, guidelines and protocols.
• New Brunswick - Economic and Social Inclusion Corporation was created to develop, oversee, coordinate and implement initiatives to reduce poverty and assist thousands of New Brunswickers to become more self-sufficient.
• Eastern Canada - Health Providers Against Poverty is an alliance of health care providers who came together in 2005 in Ontario and has since grown to have provincial chapters in Ontario, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Laborador.
• The Evidence Network of Canadian Health Policy - creates original media content on health policy topics for publication in the mainstream media. Canada spent over $180 billion dollars on healthcare in 2009. So why don’t all Canadians have similar chances of having a long healthy life?

Topic Health is more than health care: What's the issue?

Backgrounder The relationship between burden of disease and health equity by Barbara Clow

 More Commentaries and Backgrounders from Evidence Network

• How health providers in Canada are working together to treat poverty and improve health by Dane Wanniarachige.
• Charity is not enough to fight poverty by David Pfrimmer, December 2017.
• Medicine is not just a science, it's an art. Commentary by Lynn Wilson, November 2016. Why a good conversation with your doctor is good for your health,
• Canada's housing crisis is a public health emergency by Richter and Meili, September 2016.
• Why Manitoba needs to invest in its children by Nickel and Moffatt, August 2016.
• Why it's never too late for low income Canadians to file their taxes by Bloch and Silver, June 2016.

Books and Reports

• Why We Need More Canadian Health Policy in the Media edited by Noralou Roos, Kathleen O'Grady, Eileen Boriskewich, Melanie Meloche-Holubowski, Carolyn Shimmin, Kristy Wittmeier, and Nanci Armstrong. 1st edition with content from December 2014 to December 2015. Freely available in various formats.
• Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts [pdf] - A primer for the Canadian public by Juha Mikkonen and Dennis Raphael, 2010, Toronto: York University School of Health Policy and Management. Also see video of conversation with Dennis Raphael.

Infographics/Posters

Poster: Helping Health Care Providers Understand the Importance of Diagnosing and Treating Poverty [ppt]	Poster: Treat Poverty to Improve Health and Well-being [ppt]	Infographic: Poverty and Health - Struggling to make ends meet. Also see article - Five things everyone should know about the relationship between poverty and health in Canada by Carolyn Shimmin.

Presentations

• How to Really Make a Difference to Manitoba Children's Health and Well-Being - through medical practice and advocacy. Noralou Roos, PhD, and Sharon Macdonald, MD, FRCPC, with thanks to Lee Ford Jones, MD, and Gary Bloch, MD.

Videos

• What if our healthcare system kept us healthy? A TEDMED talk by Rebecca Onie, 2012. Onie asks questions such as "What if waiting rooms were a place to improve daily health care?"