Grant: IPPH Travel Awards - CPHA Annual Conference

Income-related health inequalities are an important indicator of health equity in Canada's cities. During the past two years, the Urban Public Health Network has been working with project partners and Canada's leading data stewards to develop a descriptive portrait of income-related health inequalities in the largest cities in each province using hospital administrative and survey data. We have found that: 1) income-related health inequalities are widespread in all cities we considered; 2) however, income-related health inequalities also vary considerably between them; 3) these between city differences are primarily driven by the health outcomes of poor neighbourhoods not rich; and 4) over time, inequalities overall have tended to stay the same or become worse. In the years to come, addressing health inequalities in Canada's cities is likely going to require making investments and policy choices that target and improve the health of poor neighbourhoods.