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Health Equity Survey: A Request to Share Knowledge, Experience and Expertise

 

This survey, funded by Echo: Improving Women's Health in Ontario is part of a project called "Making Gender-Based and Equity-Assisting Frameworks Accessible: Knowledge Translation Strategies for Ontario's Healthcare Professionals". Please take 15 minutes and fill it out. It is anonymous. It will help the Project Team* understand how Ontario's health-care professionals use an equity lens in their work. It's one way for you to influence development of knowledge translation strategies and tools to support health-care providers, planners, and policy-makers as well as expand equity as a key criterion when developing, implementing, and evaluating health programs and services. Please fill out the survey by June 30, 2010.

The online survey can be accessed at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/genderandequity <https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/genderandequity> . 

 

* The Project Team consists of Co-Principal Investigators: Margot Lettner, Arlene Moscovitch; Co-Investigator: Tekla Hendrickson; Collaborators: Dr. Bob Gardner, Director, Healthcare Reform and Public Policy, The Wellesley Institute; and Julie Maher, Provincial Director, Ontario Women's Health Network (OWHN) as well as a Project Advisory Group consisting of community-based nominees and diverse healthcare professionals

 

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If you need additional information, please see below.

 

Background

 

Echo: Improving Women's Health in Ontario fulfills its mandate through leadership, productive partnerships and research-based action. This agency of the Ministry of Health and Long-term Care is currently funding a project "Making Gender-Based and Equity-Assisting Frameworks Accessible", aimed at healthcare providers, planners and policy makers. Those involved in the project include:

Co-Principal Investigators: Margot Lettner, Arlene Moscovitch; Co-Investigator: Tekla Hendrickson; Collaborators: Dr. Bob Gardner, Director, Healthcare Reform and Public Policy, The Wellesley Institute; and Julie Maher, Provincial Director, Ontario Women's Health Network (OWHN); as well as a Project Advisory Group consisting of community-based nominees and diverse healthcare professionals

 

This project will develop ways to share information, experience, and support among Ontario's healthcare providers, planners and policymakers about how to develop, implement, and evaluate health programs and services from a broad equity perspective, with a focus on gender. It has five main phases.

 

Fill out and/or Share the Survey Today!

The first phase involves an e-survey designed by the Project Team to establish an understanding of how Ontario's healthcare professionals use an equity lens in their work.  Besides exploring the relative depth of current knowledge, experience, and expertise in practical, front-line application, the survey will also probe the facilitating factors and barriers to use both at the organizational and individual provider level. Input from people involved in healthcare is essential so we would deeply appreciate your sending this survey out to all members of your organization and/or receiving your responses to the questions as well. The online survey can be accessed at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/genderandequity <https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/genderandequity> . 

 

Next Steps

The data from this critical first step will be complemented by a Literature Review (peer-reviewed, community-based) of gender-based and equity-assisting frameworks, with a principal frame of reference being Canada and the U.S. The Project Team will then review the survey and literature findings together to suggest approaches to a common language and understanding of gender-based analysis and equity, as well as the tools and frameworks currently being used. In phase four, the Project Team will customize, test, and adjust these approaches through focus groups and key informant interviews across Ontario.

 

In the final phase, the Project Team will develop a framework of common principles combined with a selection of customized, flexible, accessible recommendations that use a range of traditional and innovative delivery methods with potential for targeted use since one size does not fit all. The recommendations will developed with an eye to building organizational and individual capacity to apply gender-based and equity-assisting frameworks to healthcare strategy and practice. 

 

If you have any further questions or concerns, please contact Arlene Moscovitch 

at 416-531-3108 or by e-mail at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> 

 

best regards,

 

Arlene Moscovitch

Co-Principal Investigator

 

 

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