This webinar is presented by the National Collaborating Centres for the Determinants of Health (NCCDH).
Work is a powerful condition of everyday life that can harm or promote the health of workers and their families. Employment conditions and working conditions are two interrelated social determinants of health. Workers who experience structural oppression are disproportionately exposed to precarious employment and hazardous working conditions that are harmful for physical and mental health. As a rising source of health inequities, precarious employment is a key area for public health action.
Join us for this practice-based webinar where we will focus on how the Canadian public health community can promote decent work – a vital social determinant of health and health equity.
This webinar will be of interest to anybody looking to build individual and organizational capacity to improve health inequities for people experiencing precarious employment in Canada.
# Who should attend:
- Public health and community health practitioners, professionals, policy makers and decision makers
- Instructors and educators
- Students
- Researchers
# Webinar objectives:
- Explore four roles for public health to advance decent work and health equity
- Describe three essential cross-cutting approaches to tailor decent work actions to address local worker needs and context
- Identify real world examples of how public health and community health practitioners and organizations have responded to precarious employment conditions and hazardous working conditions in their communities
# Speakers:
- Rebecca Cheff (she/her), Knowledge Translation Specialist, NCCDH
- Carolina Jiminez (she/they), Knowledge Translation Specialist, NCCDH