We have produced a three-part Primer on Equity and Environmental Public Health (EPH) practice, written for practitioners, managers, and program directors.

1. Five Things to Know About Equity in EPH (PDF) highlights the ways that equity intersects with EPH practice and illustrates how an equity lens might be used
2. Areas of EPH Practice Impacted by the Social Determinants of Health (PDF) illustrates how equity issues impact different areas of EPH practice
3. Equity in EPH Practice (PDF) discusses ways to integrate an equity lens into practice

Five Strategies for Organizational Change

This short document (PDF) outlines five ways to begin integrating an equity lens into environmental health practice.

Policy Levers in Environmental Public Health Practice

This short summary (PDF) highlights how two types of policy levers (governing instruments and policy drivers) affect the implementation of an equity lens, and highlights five key ways that policy can support leaders and decision makers to take further action.

Success Factors for Equity-Integrated Environmental Health Practice

This guide (PDF) outlines case studies from environmental health practitioners across Canada who have applied an equity lens to their work. The case studies highlight some of the critical success factors, tools and strategies that are being used to integrate equity into environmental health practice.

Toward Health Equity: Practical Actions for Public Health Inspectors framework

This framework (PDF) is an overview and checklist to guide thinking about how health equity and the social determinants of health relate to public health practice. The user guide (PDF) puts the framework into context for three defined audiences: frontline public health inspectors and environmental health officers, managers and directors, and educational and professional development organizations.