Steps to the HEIA Videos
- HEIA Step 1, Scoping: An overview of the first stage
- HEIA Step 2: Examining intention versus potential impact
- HEIA Step 3 Using evidence to create effective mitigation strategies
- HEIA Step 5: Sharing the results of your HEIA—an important final task
Tools for using HEIA
Assessing and reducing health disparities in virtual care - March 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic forced healthcare providers to rapidly transition to virtual services, creating significant equity challenges. In this webinar, Dr. Allison Crawford discusses tools to assess and mitigate health inequities caused by a shift to virtual services.
Health equity training is part of a toolbox that organizations can use to support staff to provide more inclusive and equitable services. But how can you incorporate meaningful health equity training into your organization? This roundtable webinar discusses ways to enhance health equity training in a healthcare setting.
Why Health Equity Matters
Poverty, Mental Health, and Social Inclusion - February 2022
Join the Health Equity Impact Assessment (HEIA) Community of Interest for a webinar presented by Cheryl Forchuk and Rick Csiernik about their latest book, Poverty, Mental Health, and Social Inclusion.
Ensuring no one is left behind: The Virtual Care Equity Matrix - December 2021
The Virtual Care Equity Matrix aims to capture the equity issues that policy makers and providers need to address in the delivery of virtual care. It highlights the conditions that are necessary for everyone to access high quality, timely, equitable, and person-centred virtual care.
Bonnie Krysowaty from the Lakehead Social Planning Council describes how collaborative data collection has informed the development of services and resources that aim both to end homelessness and to respond to the social determinants of health of homeless individuals.
Members from the Provincial System Support Program's Persons with Lived Experience and Family Advisory Panel provide insights on barriers they've faced in accessing health services during the pandemic and changes needed to ensure virtual care meets their needs.
Increasing older adults’ access to care: Lessons learned from the pandemic response - November 2020
Sara Bhatti of the Alliance for Healthier Communities and Alvis Choi of Yet Keen Seniors’ Day Centre describe strategies taken by Community Health Centres (CHCs) to provide safe and accessible services to marginalized older adults during the pandemic.
Reducing health care barriers for uninsured clients without OHIP - September 2020
Rebecca Cheff, from the Wellesley Institute, shares about how you can reduce barriers to health care for uninsured clients in Ontario.
Other Webinars
- The Health Equity Impact Assessment tool in Ontario Public Health Units
- Reducing barriers to healthcare access for immigrant and refugees communities
- Learning from a Health Equity Data Collection Project in Mississauga Halton
- Indigenous Peoples and the health care system_ Exploring health equity for First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Ontario
- Developing Effective Mitigation Strategies in a Public Policy Context
- Building internal health equity capacity at Health Quality Ontario
- The peel newcomer profile tool: using data to support equity planning
- Using HEIA in policy making and policy analysis
- HEIA Immigrant Populations Supplement
- HEIA in systems-level work: learnings from service collaboratives
- Working together to facilitate intersectoral action for health equity (using HEIA)
- HEIA Use in one Ontario Public Health Unit
- HEIA Mental Health & Addictions Tip Sheet
- Every Woman Matters!
- From brainstorming to action: implementing mitigation strategies for HEIA
- Applying HEIA: Two Policy Case Studies
- Using HEIA to advance the health equity of LGBTQ people
- Evaluation of the HEIA tool at Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit
- Using the Health Impact Assessment (HIA) tool to integrate health into the urban planning process
- Understanding mental health and addiction system needs of Francophones in Ontario: Findings from the Ciel Eclairci report
- Breaking down the stigma of childhood disability through awareness and advocacy: The Dear Everybody Campaign
- Using CIHI’s toolkit to plan, analyze and report on health inequalitiesUsing the HEIA to analyze the implications of Bill 47
- Working Together to Advance Health Equity in York Region
- Preparing for your HEIA: Putting the horse before your cart