NCCDH Webinar: Selecting and assessing health equity tools

Webinar: Selecting and assessing health equity tools
Date: January 22, 2018

Speakers:
• Bernie Pauly, University of Victoria, CISUR
• Sana Shahram, Interior Health Authority, CISUR

Agenda:
• Introduction – Dianne Oickle (slides 1-7)
o Introduction to session, Indigenous land acknowledgement

• Learning objectives (slide 8)
o Discuss availability of health equity tools for public health practitioners to address population health inequities
o Identify considerations for selecting a health equity tool, including organizational conditions for successful implementation
o Review practical and theoretical criteria to consider when determining if a health equity tool is suitable

• Speaker introduction (slide 9)

• Overview – Selecting and assessing health equity tools (slides 10-15)

• Using metaphors as a tool to examine health equity (slides 16-34)
o Overview of key concepts (slides 17-20)
o Communicating more effectively (slide 21)
o Starting with values (slide 22)
o Explanatory chains and metaphors (slides 23-25)
o Audience activity – Using health equity metaphors creatively and critically (slides 26-28)
o Audience activity – Creative reflection on health equity (slides 29-31)
o Checklist for explanatory chains and metaphors, conclusion and reflection (slides 32-34)

• Health equity tools (slides 35 – 51)
o Tools inventories, defining and selecting tools (slides 36-41)
o Appraising health equity tools (slides 42-49)
 Classification (slides 43-44)
 Practical criteria (slides 45-47)
 Theoretical criteria (slide 48)
 It’s not just the tool that matters (slide 49)
o Knowledge translation resources (slide 50)
o Funding for ELPH project (slide 51)

• Discussion, thank you, evaluation link, contact information (slides 52-55)