Videos

• “Let’s Start a Conversation…” (English) (French) - health is about more than access to medical care. Health is also influenced by a person’s social and economic conditions.
• Make the Month - interactive game challenges you to manage your money, raise a child and make it through the month on a minimum wage.
• What’s Good for Canada – a series of short videos from those living in low income and what needs to change from the Canadian Center of Policy Alternatives.

Websites

• Jason’s Story - This simple story, developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada, speaks to the complex set of factors or conditions that determine the level of health of every Canadian.
• A New Way to Talk About the Social Determinants of Health - Developed by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this resource presents “a series of lessons, best practices, recommended language, and watch-outs that can support better and more persuasive messages” related to the social determinants of health.
• The Wellesley Institute: Health Equity - The Wellesley Institute is a research and policy institute that provides resources, and tools for policy-makers, practitioners, and community advocates for building health equity into strategy, planning and practice.
• Ministry of Health and Long Term Care Health Equity Impact Assessment (HEIA) - This tool is used to examine the potential impacts of policies, initiatives, services and programs on groups at risk of experiencing health inequities.
• National Collaborating Center for the Determinants of Health (NCCDH) - The Centre collects and shares evidence with public health organizations to influence health determinants and advance health equity.
• Homeless Hub - The Homeless Hub offers resources to help anyone including service providers, researchers, and policy makers to better understand and tackle the problem of housing and homelessness.
• St. Michael’s Centre for Urban Health Solutions conducts research and provides resources for building healthy policy and practices; address barriers and identify gaps in health related services;  and improves services for people dealing with homelessness and housing instability.
• Vibrant Communities Canada - Vibrant Communities is a learning community of members who share a common interest in working to reduce poverty through multi-sector engagement and collaboration.
• Tamarack Institute - provides support and knowledge generation on collective impact, community engagement, collaboration leadership, community development and evaluating collective impact.
• A Way Home - resources and tools on youth homelessness
• Vital Signs 2014 focus on Simcoe County
• Canadian Index of Wellbeing - report on how well people are doing
• Applying a Health Equity Lens
• Ontario Public Health Association Position Statements
• Health equity impact assessment (HEIA) - online course
• Public Health Ontario - Health Equity
• Cover all the Bases with Health Equity Impact Assessment

Advocacy

• Basic Income Guarantee Network – (BIG) networks, raises awareness, supports policy development and research about having a BIG for all Canadians.
• The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives a research institute concerned with policy issues of social, economic and environmental justice.
• Generation Squeeze – addresses the barriers facing young Canadians regarding SDOH such as education, income, and housing.
• Health Care Providers Against Poverty (Ontario) – advocate on income security and social security, raise awareness about the health impacts of poverty, and engage health providers and people living in poverty in social and political change.
• Ontario Living Wage Network – Network of employers, employees and researchers to address standards of pay for low wage workers.
• Upstream addresses the social determinants of health in order to build a healthier society.

Local organizations

• Child and Youth Family Services Coalition of Simcoe County (CYFS)
• Poverty Reduction of Muskoka Planning Table (PROMPT) – coalition of individuals and families with "lived experience" and service provider representatives committed to reducing poverty by carrying out work and activities in the core areas of advocacy, public education, awareness and community mobilization.
• Simcoe County Local Immigration Partnership- focus on settlement strategies for newcomers supporting service delivery promoting positive relationships, opportunity, and use of local resources effectively.
• BANAC- regional social planning organization including resources to support understanding and working with the Aboriginal population.
• SCATEH - The Simcoe County Alliance to End Homelessness is a local movement to prevent and end homelessness in Simcoe County through coordinated strategies, advocacy and awareness
• SMDHU’s Health and Advocacy Portal - resources for Primary Care Providers

Papers, Reports and Books

• Simcoe County Vital Signs – a report about who We Are, Arts & Culture, Health & Well-being, Housing & Homelessness, Poverty, Community, Safety and Transportation within Simcoe Muskoka
• Voices out of Poverty (2014) is a report on the experience of people living in poverty in Simcoe County through their own voices 
• Working to End Homelessness Simcoe County 20,000 Homes Campaign Registry Week is a report on who was found homeless in Simcoe County (2016)
• Making Choices Together - Re-Imaging Poverty Reduction in Simcoe County - Report and Appendices - a report about the broader priorities around poverty reduction for Simcoe County (2016)
• Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit’s Approach to Addressing the Determinants of Health – A Health Equity Framework – guide for SMDHU to address the factors that create inequities in overall health.
• Social determinants of health - the Canadian facts by Raphael & Mikkonen, 2010.
• Communicating the Social Determinants of Health Guidelines for Common Messaging Canadian Council on Social Determinants of Health, 2013
• Closing the gap in a generation - health equity through action on the social determinants of health - World Health Organization 2008
• Youth Homelessness in Canada: Implications for Policy and Practice. Gaetz S, O’Grady B, Buccieri K, Karabanow J, Marsolais A(Eds.). 2013. Toronto: Canadian Homelessness Research Network Press.
•  Strategic Plan 2016-2017 (website)
•  Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit’s Approach to Addressing the Determinants of Health – A Health Equity Framework (pdf)
• Internal Social Determinants of Health Advisory Committee SMDHU’s Planning Path 2007 to 2016 and beyond Theory of Change (pdf)
• FOCUS report on low income and impact on health in Simcoe Muskoka
• Let’s Start a Conversation About Health . . . and Not Talk About Health Care at All (user guide)
• Voices out of Poverty (2014) Working to End Homelessness in Simcoe County (2014)
• Working to End Homelessness Simcoe County- 20K Report (2016)
• Re-Imagining Poverty in Simcoe County (2016) Report and Appendices