This document presents EQUIP Healthcare’s Ten Strategies to guide organizations in enhancing capacity for equity-oriented services which flow from EQUIP’s 3 key dimensions of equity-oriented care:
- Trauma- and violence-informed care;
- Culturally-safe care; and
- Harm reduction.
The 3 Key Dimensions are interconnected, responsive to inequities and tailored to each particular context.
EQUIP Health Care is a group of research intervention studies working with health care organizations to enhance their capacity to provide equity-oriented health care, particularly for those experiencing marginalization – EQUIP Health Care website
Equity-oriented health care (EOHC) is about directing resources to those with the greatest needs. It doesn’t mean treating everyone equally, because everyone doesn’t need the same thing.
How to use this resource:
- Facilitate discussion about key components of authentic community engagement to address health inequities
- Adopt engagement strategies into programs, frameworks and plan
- Consider community members as experts and leaders in addressing health equity
References
EQUIP Health Care. (2017). Key Dimensions of Equity-Oriented Care: 10 Strategies to Guide Organizations in Enhancing Capacity for Equity-Oriented Health Care. Retrieved from www.equiphealthcare.ca