Action Series
Healthcare Excellence Canada's action series are light-touch, high-impact learning opportunities that bring people together to learn, reflect and take practical action toward improving care and health systems across Canada.
Through virtual learning sessions, peer connection and supported action periods, participants apply learning in their own settings and contribute to safer, connected, high-quality care.
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- What you'll get
Build a shared understanding of health equity
Apply a systems-oriented equity lens to your everyday work
Strengthen relationships that sustain equity work
- Topics
- Health equity
- Audience
Quality or safety improvement lead
Point of care provider
Person with lived/living experience
What is an action series?
Action series are guided learning experiences designed to help participants move ideas into action in their own settings.
Each series combines virtual learning, peer connection and supported action periods to help participants build practical skills, strengthen relationships and apply learning in meaningful ways.
Action series may focus on different topics, communities or improvement priorities, but all are designed to support learning, reflection and real-world change.
Advancing Health Equity action series
Advancing Health Equity is a six-month virtual action series designed to help participants build practical skills, strengthen relationships and take action by addressing the factors that shape health equity in their setting.
This series supports participants to put the HEC Health Equity Framework into practice through reflection, collaboration and real-world action.
Participants will explore how their role, decisions and everyday practices can contribute to safer more equitable care for everyone.
HEC is committed to building a future where everyone has access to safe, high-quality healthcare.
To support this commitment, HEC co-developed the Health Equity Framework, an action-oriented resource grounded in an understanding of how systems of oppression and discrimination affect care experiences and outcomes.
This action series is an opportunity to move the framework from concept into practice through virtual learning sessions, peer connection and supported action periods.
Participants will identify opportunities for change in their own setting and take meaningful steps toward more equitable care.
Why this matters
Everyone deserves access to safe, high-quality healthcare — no matter who they are or where they live.
Yet many people continue to experience barriers within healthcare systems that lead to unfair differences in access, experiences and outcomes. Racism, discrimination and other forms of systemic oppression can negatively affect care and deepen inequities.
These barriers impact many people, including First Nations, Inuit and Métis, Black and structurally racialized communities, 2S/LGBTQIA+ communities, people with disabilities, newcomers, lower-income people and families, people across various ages and many other communities facing systemic barriers.
Advancing health equity means recognizing and addressing these barriers so that everyone has the opportunity to achieve their best possible health and wellbeing.
Healthier communities benefit everyone. When people can access safe, equitable care, communities are stronger, healthcare systems are more sustainable and more people can thrive.
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Related resources
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Virtual Learning Exchange
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Health Equity Framework
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Advancing Health Equity: Practical Actions for Implementing HEC’s Health Equity Framework
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