Inventory of Evidence on Health Equity Interventions and Analysis/Synthesis of Findings

Please Note: The Procurement Entity is “Health Canada” and the End user is “Public Health Agency Canada” . In 2018, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), supported by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and Statistics Canada (StatCan), released a report titled Key Health Inequalities in Canada: A National Portrait. The aim of the report is to support regular reporting of health inequalities in Canada, based on a set of health outcome and health determinant indicators proposed by the Pan-Canadian Public Health Network (PHN) in the 2009 Indicators of Health Inequalities report. Findings from the Key Health Inequalities in Canada report highlighted significant health inequalities in common behavioural risk factors for chronic disease, early childhood development, and mental health. In light of this, PHAC wishes to assess the current state of evidence to reduce health inequities in these domains. Based on the review of the evidence, the subsequent creation of inventories will focus on effective (strong evidence) and promising (weak evidence) approaches in Canada and other OECD countries, studied within the past ~15 years, and will include government reports (e.g. province and territories strategies), academic peer-reviewed publications, as well as relevant information identified through existing repositories of systematic reviews of public health interventions.