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"Who are we serving?” A workshop on hospital-based strategies to identify health service inequities
April 6, 2009
 
The Health Equity Council joined with the Hospital Collaborative on Marginalized Populations, Toronto Central LHIN, Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services, the Wellesley Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital and the Toronto Community Health Profiles Partnership to sponsor an invitational workshop on hospital health equity data strategies on April 6, 2009.

The workshop was titled "Who Are We Serving".  In this half-day workshop, 100 attendees from hospitals and other health service agencies explored what hospitals could do now with existing data to understand service equity gaps and challenges to support action to reduce helath disparities. The following documents are now available online:

- Workshop presentations (compiled into one document)

- Workshop Summary document

Joint Letter to The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba and the Manitoba Human Rights Commission
Written in cooperation with the Rainbow Health Network and Salaam Queer Muslim Community addressing the case of the lesbian couple in Manitoba who were refused treatment by a physician. 

- Letter to College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba

- Letter to the Manitoba Human Rights Commission

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