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Northern Ontario Health Equity Strategy

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In 2017, our report Health in the North showed that in Northern Ontario, some 800,000 people have less access to health care, and overall have worse health, than people in other parts of the province.

In 2018, Health Quality Ontario released the Northern Ontario Health Equity Strategy, developed with Northern partners, which sets out key actions to give Northerners better health care and improved health.

This strategy aims to support planning at the regional level to help support locally-appropriate approaches to improving health for communities across Northern Ontario.


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Specialized report: Health in the North

Our report shows persistent gaps in the care people receive and poorer health outcomes in the province's northern regions

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A plan to bring health equity to Northern Ontario

A blog entry by former CEO of Health Quality Ontario Joshua Tepper on how and why the Northern Ontario Health Equity Strategy came together

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