Alliance for Healthier Communities

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La pandémie de la COVID-19 a mis en lumière des inégalités sociales et en matière de santé profondément ancrées qui font entrave à un rétablissement durable et juste pour tous. Ces obstacles font ressortir les difficultés auxquelles font face les populations vulnérables quant à l’accès aux services et aux renseignements en matière de santé dont elles ont besoin, y compris en ce qui concerne la vaccination contre la COVID-19.

On Jaunary 26, 2022, the Alliance for Healthier Communities hosted "Vax for the Future: Equity, Community, and Trust." This 90-minute webinar featured stories about tailored and community-based COVID-19 vaccionation from Centre Francophone du Grand Toronto and the TAIBU, Somerset West, and Woolwich Community Health Centres. 

#Introduction

# 1. Purpose

The Panel Size Handbook outlines procedures that relate to (1) the calculation of current panel sizes and (2) adjusted target panel sizes for member organizations in Ontario.

The Learning Collaborative (LC) is a short-term learning system that brings together peers from multiple organizations to seek improvement in a focused topic area, with guidance from a coach or practice facilitator.

In March 2019, Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario) introduced a new overarching policy for breast and cervical cancer screening for Trans people (updated March 2022), providing clarity about who is eligible for screening through the Ontario Breast Screening Program (OBSP) and Ontario Cervical Screening Program (OCSP) and outlining steps that can be taken to reduce emotional and physical discomfort for Transgender and Non-binary people during the screening process. 

The Learning Collaborative (LC) is a short-term learning system that brings together peers from multiple organizations to seek improvement in a focused topic area, with guidance from a coach or practice facilitator. This approach was developed by the Institute for Health Information (IHI)’s Collaborative Model for Achieving Breakthrough Improvement.

The impacts of climate change are already creating new barriers to health equity and strenghtening old ones.  People who experience structural marginalization, including anti-Black racism, colonial oppression, and material deprivation are disproportionately affected by extreme weather events, loss of access to land, food insecurity, chronic stress, and other direct impacts of climate change. Those impacts also deepen existing inequities. Because of this, antiopressive approaches to individual and community health should include mitigating and building resilience to climate change. 

At the June 2020 Alliance Annual General Meeting, Alliance members unanimously passed a resolution to advance sociodemographic data collection in our sector, with a goal of all member organizations having a 75% data completion rate by 2024. Collecting this data is essential to our mission of advancing health equity, because it provides evidence we need to advocate for our clients in priority populations and tailor service delivery to improve care. It also helps us to obtain funding and support for programs that assist our most vulnerable clients.