This document summarizes an event about health equity held in Charlottetown, PEI on April 9, 2013. It provides background on the organizing partners, including the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH) and the Public Health Association of NB-PEI. The agenda for the day is outlined, including a video, presentations on promising practices and leadership for health equity, and a showcase of PEI health equity work. The goal of the event was to increase understanding of social determinants of health and how public health practitioners can address the root causes of inequities.

1. Sharing your passion for health equity:
Building our collective understanding
April 9, 2013
Charlottetown, PEI

2. Welcome from the Board of Directors
Pleased to partner and co-host
workshop on health
equity
Incorporated in 2008

3. Beginnings 2003:
 Health promotion summer
institutes had proven successful
in other regions
 Recent research had provided a comprehensive health
profile of Atlantic Canada
 Increasing evidence of need for intersectoral
partnerships to address common problems

4.  Since 2004 – a focal point for learning and
training in Atlantic Canada; intersectoral
networking and collaboration; a facilitator of
research; a promoter of healthy and sustainable
policies; and a catalyst for social justice and
equity.
 Focus - building regional capacity for healthy and
safe communities by addressing the linkages
between the determinants of health and the root
causes of crime and victimization.

5. Looking to the future –
 The 2014 Atlantic Summer Institute
on Healthy and Safe Communities
 Renewing Democracy Through
Social Justice: Adding New Voices
 Charlottetown, August 19-22
 Inquiries:
asi@thequaich.pe.ca
www.asi-iea.ca

6. Public Health Association of NB-PEI
• CPHA is the only Canadian, non-
governmental organization focused solely
on public health.
– An independent voice.
• The PHA of NB-PEI, founded in 1952, is
one of 11 Provincial and Territorial public
health associations that works to
further the mission of CPHA.

7. Public Health Association of NB-PEI
• Mission:
– To support our provinces (NB, PEI) in the
continual improvement of population and
public health principles through
leadership, advocacy, and education.
• Governance:
– 9-member Board of Directors
– 6 from NB, 3 from PE

8. Public Health Association of NB-PEI
• Activities:
– Professional Development
• Webinars
• Events like today (NCCDH, NCCMT, CIPHI)
– Biennial Conference
• October 25-26, 2012 in Frederiction, NB
• 2014 to be held in Charlottetown, PE
• All our work is carried out by our
members on a volunteer basis.
Join us today!

9. Karen Fish (kfish@stfx.ca) & Hannah Moffatt
(hmoffatt@stfx.ca), Knowledge Translation Specialists
Heidi Sinclair, Communications
Connie Clement, Scientific Director
National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health,
St Francis Xavier University,
Antigonish, Nova Scotia
www.nccdh.ca

10. About the National Collaborating Centres
for Public Health (NCCPH)
• We translate existing and new evidence into
knowledge that is meaningful, accessible and relevant
to public health practitioners and decision makers
• We foster and promote local, regional, national and
international networks to facilitate the exchange of
knowledge between public health community,
researchers and others

11. National Collaborating Centres for Public Health

12. National Collaborating Centre
for Determinants of Health - NCCDH
• Focuses on the social and economic
factors that influence the health of
Canadians in order to advance health
equity
• Translates and shares evidence with
public health organizations and
practitioners
• Works to advance knowledge, foster
knowledge use, and accelerate
network development

13. Event Objectives
• Increase understanding of the social determinants of
health and health equity
• Increase knowledge of policies and programs that
create more equitable conditions for health
• Explore how public health practitioners can improve
the conditions that lead to health
• Connect with others in PEI doing health equity and
social determinant of health work

14. Agenda
• Warm up exercise
• Video: Let’s start a conversation about health…
• Break (10:35 – 10:45am)
• Presentation: 10 Promising practices
• Progressive disclosure case study
• Lunch (12 – 12:50pm)
• PEI showcase
• Presentation: Leadership for health equity
• Circular questions & closure
• End of day (3pm)

15. VIDEO Let’s start a conversation
about health … and not talk about
health care at all
• What did you think of the video?
• Could you use it in your work?

16. Video links
• GASHA -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GElWk2xYvI
• Summary in NCCDH Resource Library:
http://nccdh.ca/resources/entry/lets-start-a-
conversation-about-health-and-not-talk-about-health-
care-at-al