The following summary report details policies and programs in Canada that have had some measure of success in reducing health inequalities.
The National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy asked researchers at a research centre on health inequalities, Centre Léa-Roback, to report on programs and policies in Canada whose results have been evaluated using current medical evidence-based standards, including an evaluation of the quality of published evidence used in clinical guidelines.
Public health actors interested in promoting healthy public policies are concerned that these policies be based on a rigorous application of sound methodologies. Policies and broad government programs, in other words, are ideally based on what has been proven to work. Working with actual populations in social contexts, however, is not the same as working in a laboratory where the researcher has far more control over the experiment. Working with health inequalities and the socia…