Advancing equity by reducing barriers and disrupting oppression

This case-study, cowritten by the NCCDH and Parkdale Queen West Community Health Center (CHC), highlights how the CHC invested resources and effort to support community engagement, community organizing and coalition building in the nail technician community of the Greater Toronto Area in order to improve and enhance occupational health and safety in the industry.

#EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Canada’s health care system is understaffed and facing both recruitment and retention challenges. As part of a wider health human resources (HHR) strategy, the National Newcomer Navigation Network (N4) is investigating internationally educated physicians and nurses as a key demographic to help meet staffing needs.

This reports outlines six calls to action to address the long-term consequences of people living without birth certificates and other forms of personal identification. It calls for

#ABSTRACT

#Objectives

To determine whether a voluntary referralbased interprofessional team-based primary care programme reached its target population and to assess the representativeness of referring primary care physicians.

#KEY POINTS

• An Afrocentric approach to Black health promotes culturally meaningful health care grounded in the values, worldviews, lived experiences and histories of Black people of African descent.

• Afrocentric community health care can disrupt systemic anti-Black racism and related health inequities.