health equity workshop - leadership
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What does it take to be a leader for health equity?TRANSCRIPT
Sharing your passion for health equity: Building our collective understanding
April 9, 2013Charlottetown, PEI
What does it take to be a leader for health equity?
Connie ClementScientific Director
What is public health leadership?
Public health leadership is about influence that moves individuals, groups, communities and systems toward achieving goals that will result in better health.
(Betker & Bewick, 2012)
Purpose of the NCCDH Leadership Initiative
To build public health leadership capacity to address the social determinants of health to advance health equity
Leadership & health equity
• Public health leaders play a vital role in advancing health equity (NCCDH, 2010)
• Leadership is essential to public health’s capacity to improve the social determinants of health and health equity
• Leadership identified consistently as a key factor (75% of survey respondents, NCCDH, 2010)
Call for leadership
• “… high-level leadership in all sectors—health and otherwise—is crucial to reducing health inequalities.” (Butler-Jones, 2008)
• Little consensus about effective leadership practices, or supporting and limiting factors
• Shared leadership is key
Leadership initiative activities
• Literature review• Interviews with 14 public health leaders• Case studies• Scan of leadership development
strategies & tools• Workshops, webinars & presentations• Health Equity Clicks: Community online
conversation
Check out the online conversation about leadership for health equity, Jan 2013
Literature review findings to date
• Little direct evidence that leadership impacts the social determinants of health or health equity
• Indirect evidence that leadership is an enabler of action
Interview findings
Leadership to address the social determinants of health requires:
• Organizational support
• Bridging with the community
• Professional competency
Conclusions
• Need to develop/ expand leadership competencies of public health professionals to do health equity work
• Policy & theoretical frameworks help ensure financial & human resources engage energy and commitment for health equity
• Passion & moral conviction underlie effective organizational and individual public health leadership for health equity
Contact Us National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of
HealthSt. Francis Xavier UniversityPO Box 5000 , Antigonish, NS B2G 2W5
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (902) 867-5406 Fax: (902) 867-6130 www.nccdh.ca and www.ccnds.ca
@NCCDH_CCNDS
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Contact Us National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of
HealthSt. Francis Xavier UniversityPO Box 5000 , Antigonish, NS B2G 2W5
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (902) 867-5406 Fax: (902) 867-6130 www.nccdh.ca and www.ccnds.ca
@NCCDH_CCNDS
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