http://www.healthequitycouncil.org/ "Who are we serving?? A workshop on hospital-based strategies to identify health service inequities April 6, 2009 The Health Equity Council joined with the Hospital Collaborative on Marginalized Populations, Toronto Central LHIN, Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services, the Wellesley Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital and the Toronto Community Health Profiles Partnership to sponsor an invitational workshop on hospital health equity data strategies on April 6, 2009. The workshop was titled "Who Are We Serving". In this half-day workshop, 100 attendees from hospitals and other health service agencies explored what hospitals could do now with existing data to understand service equity gaps and challenges to support action to reduce helath disparities. The following documents are now available online: - Workshop presentations (compiled into one document) - Workshop Summary document Dennis Raphael, PhD Professor of Health Policy and Management York University 4700 Keele Street Room 418, HNES Building Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 416-736-2100, ext. 22134 email: [log in to unmask] http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/draphael Of interest: *NEW* Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives, 2nd edition, edited by Dennis Raphael Forewords by Carolyn Bennett and Roy Romanow http://tinyurl.com/5l6yh9 Poverty and Policy in Canada: Implications for Health and Quality of Life by Dennis Raphael Foreword by Jack Layton http://tinyurl.com/2hg2df Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care, edited by Dennis Raphael, Toba Bryant, and Marcia Rioux Foreword by Gary Teeple http://tinyurl.com/2zqrox See a lecture! The Politics of Population Health http://msl.stream.yorku.ca/mediasite/viewer/?peid=ac604170-9ccc-4268-a1af-9a9e04b28e1d Also, presentation on Politics and Health at the Centre for Health Disparities in Cleveland Ohio http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4129139685624192201&hl=en To leave, manage or join list: https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=sdoh&A=1