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stmichaelshospital.com Fully affiliated with the University of Toronto Urban HEART @Toronto CRICH CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON INNER CITY HEALTH Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool Urban HEART @Toronto is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. We are a partnership to adapt and implement Urban HEART for Toronto. We are demonstrating how to work together across sectors to solve urban health and social inequities, especially inequities related to racialization of poverty. Our work builds on and complements diverse research, tools and equity interventions that are already underway in Toronto. We will set an example of intersectoral collaboration from which other global cities can learn. Partners include St. Michael’s Hospital’s Centre for Research on Inner City Health; City of Toronto Social Development, Finance and Administration Division; Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network; Toronto District School Board; and United Way of Greater Toronto. To join Urban HEART @Toronto, contact Kelly Murphy at [email protected]. HEALTH EQUITY IN TORONTO Health equity means equal opportunity to have a healthy life – for everyone. In Toronto, and everywhere that health and wealth have been compared, research shows that low income and socially marginalized people are sicker, die earlier and have greater unmet need for health care and healthy resources, compared to people with more money. It’s well understood that achieving health equity will involve much more than health care. We also need healthy urban infrastructure, safe recreation, access to good jobs, and an end to violence, racism, isolation and community disenfranchisement. In Toronto, hundreds of organizations across different sectors are working hard every day to advance these goals. Yet it’s difficult to measure the impacts of our various efforts, and to know if our work is “rolling up” to make a significant impact. We‘re doing many different things. However, we need to work in complementarity, across sectors, to make health and social equity a reality. WHAT IS URBAN HEART? Urban HEART stands for “Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool.” In 2010, the World Health Organization launched Urban HEART to help city leaders and their communities resolve health and social inequities. Urban HEART is a framework that organizations from diverse sectors can use together to maximize their collective impact on equity, while each stays focused on their own unique roles and mandates. Urban HEART can shed light on where, why and how our diverse initiatives are/aren’t converging well to produce real change. Urban HEART combines research evidence, partners’ organizational data and community knowledge to assess urban equity in relation to six policy domains: 1. Physical Environment & Infrastructure 2. Social & Human Development 3. Economic Opportunity 4. Governance 5. General Population Health 6. Disease-specific Concerns WHY USE URBAN HEART? Simple, practical: Urban HEART uses a simple “red,” “yellow,” “green” report card format to show if communities are faring well or facing equity challenges that need to be addressed. Evidence-based: Urban HEART offers an evidence-based approach to community priority-setting and investment planning. Inclusive: Urban HEART helps generate effective dialogue, buy-in and participation across sectors that are directly and indirectly related to health. Sustainable: Urban HEART is not designed to be a stand-alone program requiring new investment. It relies on existing reporting systems and is intended to be mainstreamed into participating organizations. As the Urban HEART process unfolds, intersectoral alliances for health and social equity are fostered in several ways: • by developing shared outcome indicators of success, • by sharing data to measure these outcomes, and • by designing and implementing joint policies and action plans.
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Urban HEART @Toronto
CRICHCENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON INNER CITY HEALTH
Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool
Urban HEART @Toronto is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
We are a partnership to adapt and implement Urban HEART for Toronto. We are demonstrating how to work together across sectors to solve urban health and social inequities, especially inequities related to racialization of poverty. Our work builds on and complements diverse research, tools and equity interventions that are already underway in Toronto. We will set an example of intersectoral collaboration from which other global cities can learn.
Partners include St. Michael’s Hospital’s Centre for Research on Inner City Health; City of Toronto Social Development, Finance and Administration Division; Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network; Toronto District School Board; and United Way of Greater Toronto.
To join Urban HEART @Toronto, contact Kelly Murphy at [email protected].
HEALTH EQUITY IN TORONTO
Health equity means equal opportunity to have a healthy life – for everyone.
In Toronto, and everywhere that health and wealth have been compared, research shows that low income and socially marginalized people are sicker, die earlier and have greater unmet need for health care and healthy resources, compared to people with more money.
It’s well understood that achieving health equity will involve much more than health care. We also need healthy urban infrastructure, safe recreation, access to good jobs, and an end to violence, racism, isolation and community disenfranchisement.
In Toronto, hundreds of organizations across different sectors are working hard every day to advance these goals. Yet it’s difficult to measure the impacts of our various efforts, and to know if our work is “rolling up” to make a significant impact.
We‘re doing many different things. However, we need to work in complementarity, across sectors, to make health and social equity a reality.
WHAT IS URBAN HEART?
Urban HEART stands for “Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool.”
In 2010, the World Health Organization launched Urban HEART to help city leaders and their communities resolve health and social inequities.
Urban HEART is a framework that organizations from diverse sectors can use together to maximize their collective impact on equity, while each stays focused on their own unique roles and mandates.
Urban HEART can shed light on where, why and how our diverse initiatives are/aren’t converging well to produce real change.
Urban HEART combines research evidence, partners’ organizational data and community knowledge to assess urban equity in relation to six policy domains:
1. Physical Environment & Infrastructure2. Social & Human Development3. Economic Opportunity4. Governance 5. General Population Health6. Disease-specific Concerns
WHY USE URBAN HEART?
Simple, practical: Urban HEART uses a simple “red,” “yellow,” “green” report card format to show if communities are faring well or facing equity challenges that need to be addressed.
Evidence-based: Urban HEART offers an evidence-based approach to community priority-setting and investment planning.
Inclusive: Urban HEART helps generate effective dialogue, buy-in and participation across sectors that are directly and indirectly related to health.
Sustainable: Urban HEART is not designed to be a stand-alone program requiring new investment. It relies on existing reporting systems and is intended to be mainstreamed into participating organizations.
As the Urban HEART process unfolds, intersectoral alliances for health and social equity are fostered in several ways:
• by developing shared outcome indicators of success,
• by sharing data to measure these outcomes, and
• by designing and implementing joint policies and action plans.
There are six steps to follow in the Urban HEART process.
CRICHCENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON INNER CITY HEALTH
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Starts January 2013
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