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The Centre for Research on Health Equity and Social Inclusion
The Centre for Research on Health Equity and Social Inclusion

The Centre for Research on Health Equity and Social Inclusion

Bringing communities together to collaboratively identify, research, understand, and address 'wicked problems' that prevent access to justice, health, and belonging for all people.

  • Updates
  • About Us
    • Co-Directors
    • Governance
    • Centre Objectives
    • Our Commitment to Confronting Anti-Black Racism
    • Research Principles
    • Our Thematic Areas
  • Community
    • Voices from the Margins of a Crisis
    • Diversity and Inclusion Community of Practice
    • Yazidi Refugee Mental Health Peer Support Program
    • London’s Community Diversity and Inclusion Strategy
    • Support to Report: Supporting Sexually Assaulted Adults Working in Sex Trade or Sex Trafficked to Access Justice
    • Responding to Family Violence in the Context of Migration
    • London’s Community Forum on Racism
  • Research
    • Participants
      • Trauma and Violence Informed Care – Organizational Uptake
      • Safety, Health and Hope for Women
      • Supporting Transition-Readiness for Emerging Adults with Mental Health Challenges
      • Gender-Based Violence Study
    • Refugee Housing Study
    • Mobilizing Narratives for Social and Policy Change
    • Exploring stories and photos with clients of London’s overdose prevention site
    • Housing First Model Evaluation
    • Transforming Emergency Shelter into Affordable Housing with Support
    • Learning how to tell a meaningful story of homelessness
    • Libraries as Community Hubs
    • Health Equity IDI
  • Members
    • Reviving the Social Justice Roots of Health Equity
    • Is inclusion always a ‘good’ thing? Perspectives from youth with disabilities
    • London MINDS
    • Homes4Women London
    • Educating for Equity
    • Building Connectedness in a Senior’s Apartment Building
    • Making the invisible visible: Exploring explicit, implicit, and structural stigma for people who inject drugs within a hospital environment
    • Aging in Neighbourhoods Study: Exploring and Promoting Older Adults’ Inclusion in Neighbourhoods
    • Boredom and meaningful activity in adults experiencing homelessness
  • Grants
    • Planning/Development Seed Grant
    • Putting Knowledge Into Action – Pilot Grant
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Reviving the Social Justice Roots of Health Equity

In this video, Maxwell Smith from the School of Health Studies at Western Health Sciences explains his research on why the theoretical model of ‘health equity’ might be bad for… health.

Paper: Is ‘health equity’ bad for our health? A qualitative empirical ethics study of public health policy-makers’ perspectives

Contact

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c/o Innovation Works
201 King Street
London, Ontario N6A 1C9
crhesi@uwo.ca
The Centre for Research on Health Equity and Social Inclusion (CRHESI) is an interdisciplinary, collaborative initiative led by the Faculty of Health Sciences at Western University.

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