The Sudbury District Health Unit in Ontario has produced a document
entitled: "A Framework to Integrate Social and Economic Determinants of
Health into the Ontario Public Health Mandate: A discussion paper. This is
a result of a grassroots movement of Medical Officer of Health and others
public health workers to put the SDOH on the piublic health agenda in
Ontario. Will it succeed? Stay tuned...
I have posted it at my website: http://tinyurl.com/r7ems
The full message from SDHU is appended below... dr
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To all alPHa/OPHA DOH stream conference2005 participants:
It is with great pleasure that I write this email to all of you following
your participation at the November 2005 alPHa/OPHA conference,
Determinants of Health: Developing an Action Plan for Public Health. Your
input proved invaluable in a recent process that the Sudbury & District
Health Unit (SDHU) undertook to move forward the ideas for explicitly
including the social and economic determinants of health in the revised
provincial public health mandate, which were raised at the conference.
With a small pocket of funds from the Public Health Agency of Canada, and
sponsorship from the Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse under Connie
Clement's leadership, the attached paper was drafted: A Framework to
Integrate Social and Economic Determinants of Health into the Ontario
Public Health Mandate: a discussion paper. The contents of the discussion
paper were guided by local, provincial, national and international data, as
well as the recommendations from the November 2005 alPHa/OPHA conference.
Although SDHU played the lead role in creating this discussion paper, we
also greatly benefited from the wisdom of a reference panel comprised of
local, provincial and national partners, as well as the input of the
Determinants of Health Work Group of the Council of Medical Officers of
Health in Ontario.
The discussion paper is being forwarded to the Chief Medical Officer of
Health for her continued leadership in acknowledging and addressing the
root causes of ill health. In addition, in the coming weeks, some
Medical Officers of Health are planning to meet with Dr. George Pasut, as
he is the Ministry lead for the Mandatory Health Programs and Services
Guidelines review process. The paper will thus feed into the mandate
review process and be of assistance in transforming recommendations from
the conference into concrete public health action. The Council of Medical
Officers of Health has endorsed the main idea behind the paper, and the
COMOH executive will be considering endorsing the content of the paper at
their next meeting. At the same time, we are seeking feedback from
individual Medical Officers of Health regarding whether they support the
approach outlined in the paper.
Please join in the wide dissemination of this discussion paper. We hope
that it will generate continued interest and support for the inclusion of
social and economic determinants of health as both general and program
standards in the revised mandatory health programs and services
guidelines.
As the paper recommends further consultation with the field, such as with
this group of conference participants, the SDHU is interested in your
comments on this discussion paper. Consolidated comments may be fed into
the MOH discussion with Dr. Pasut. Please don't hesitate to contact
myself or Stephanie Lefebvre at [log in to unmask] or at ext. 277.
Claire Warren, BScN, MN
Community Nurse Specialist & Manager of Professional Practice and
Development
Resources, Research, Evaluation and Development Division
Infirmière spécialiste en santé communautaire, et Gestionnaire, Pratique
professionnelle et développement
Division des ressources, de recherche, d'évaluation et de développement
Sudbury & District Health Unit
Service de santé publique de Sudbury et du district
1300 rue Paris Street
Sudbury, ONP3E 3A3
Tel: 705-522-9200, x 239
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