As outlined in the Health Equity Charter by the Alliance for Healthier Communities, the West Elgin Community Health Centre will identify, name and confront inequity by:
- Assigning priority to population groups who have the greatest health needs and least access to services
- Involving the communities we serve in the design and delivery of our programs
- Developing anti-racism/anti-oppression strategies to identify, name and confront practices that reproduce oppression within our organizations
- Developing human resource policies and practices designed to ensure that the diversity of the communities we serve is reflected at all levels – volunteer, staff, management and board – in our organizations
- Ensuring our policies, procedures and staff training meet the linguistic, cultural and other needs of the diverse communities we serve
- Developing evaluation strategies that measure health equity efforts and health equity results and using the evaluation data to continually improve health equity practices
- Using equity as a measure of quality in delivering people-centred care
- Sharing best practices and lessons learned in achieving health equity results
In our work within the broader community, we will identify, name and confront inequity by:
- Collaborating with health partners and the broader community to ensure equity as an underlying goal of the health system
- Supporting and collaborating with community groups who are challenging the social conditions that cause health inequities
- Documenting the causes of, impacts of, and potential solutions to health inequities
- Advocating for public policy responses proposed by communities to reduce health inequities
- Contributing to building an integrated, high-performing health system with health equity as one of its underlying principles
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Implementing Health Equity Change
2SLGBTQ+ (Alliance for Healthier Communities)
Poverty (Alliance for Healthier Communities)
Harm Reduction (Alliance for Healthier Communities)
Black Health (Alliance for Healthier Communities)
Indigenous People - Honouring Culture as Treatment (Alliance for Healthier Communities)