Determinants of Health |
You |
Your Community |
Organization/Hamilton |
1. Income |
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- Advocate for housing dollars
- Make petition as a group to parliament about equal pay
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- Encourage women to be independent
- Businesses could provide scholarships/debt relief
- Increase the minimum wage to eliminate poverty
- Focus on addressing people at risk due to poverty
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2. Community |
- Get to know a wide diversity of people and help others to do
the same
- Get to know as many people as possible
- Volunteer in the community to learn and get to know new people
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- Provide dollars for transportation for members to socialize
- Establish tighter relationships with people to expand the/our
community
- Participated with and attend community events large or small
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- Have more family doctors available for services
- Provide more support ($) for health
- Create mass organizations such as service clubs, recreational,
safety, health
- Accessible meeting & recreation spaces
- Provide free babysitting services
- Provide more subsidized childcare
- Promote relevant services
- Matching needs with available volunteers
- Advertising for community events
- Provide publications & resources in many languages
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3. Education |
- Always continue to improve language skills
- Upgrade skills
- Take advantage of materials, services and resources for my
knowledge
- Take advantage of training opportunities
- Further my education and knowledge
- Be a lifelong learner to continue working and rediscovering
new ways to learn
- Get involved with other communities to practice English
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- Lobby for people’s rights, various laws, empowerment
- Value international education
- Mentoring
- Get to show who you are by introducing yourself
- Be an inclusive community (getting involved)
- Provide a community kitchen
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- Value international education
- Provide training to those in authority on how to respect other
cultures
- More advertisement about where to obtain proper education to
upgrade skills
- Give more opportunities for education
- Education training
- Provide more support for single mothers to upgrade skills
- Teaching English
- Provide free training in technologies
- Continue funding language training specialized classes
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4. Employment |
- Get involved in volunteer work
- Provide information links and partnerships
- Find job opportunities
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- Recognize your skills and education and experience
- Provide guidance so people know where to go to gain connections
to a better job
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- Create more job opportunities in difference areas
- Support CED efforts
- Support programs, develop programs, enhance programs for employment
services
- Value international experience
- Create & fund more employment skills & education opportunities
- Recognize skills & education
- Strengthen matching of immigrant skills with employers
- Create opportunities to build networks
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5. Environment |
- Recycle, reuse and conserve more
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- Increase awareness and education
- Creating a friendly, secure environment
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- Increase resources & access to clean environment
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6. Equity |
- Equality in pay
- Stand up for your right and what you believe in. Have
confidence
- Voice your opinion show your value
- Develop awareness of how you treat/react to people
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- Gain air and physical space. Demand to be listened to
- Advocate for policy change – lobby for change from upper
level government
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- Consult communities on what they need, empower them with decision
making
- Fair equity, salary & opportunities
- Linking with various organizations to create change on broader
spectrum & support & share information
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