A Black Health Plan for Ontario - A Call to Action to Reduce Disparities and Advance Equity in Ontario

These organizations have to Indigenous and Francophone communities played particularly significant roles over the and strives to identify and address impacts course of the COVID-19 pandemic, contributing of anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism on to the development of the Black Health Vaccine health. [...] The following recommendations are for the Ministry of Health and Ontario Health: Recommendation 4 Prioritize the systematic collection of race- Recommendation 1 based data through the OHIP health card With public health units and others involved registration and renewal process, analyze in the pandemic response, adopt and these data, and publish the data and the implement evidence-based strategies. [...] data, and publish the data and the results to help the health system decrease inequities All efforts must also consider the long-term during and following the pandemic.* or prolonged effects of COVID in the Black *Service providers should support the collection of race-based population, resulting from increased susceptibility data and use collected race-based data to identify differences to infect. [...] The Ministry of Health and Ontario Health must ensure that all priorities in the health system PRIORITIES FOR RECOVERY recovery plan equitably meet the needs of Black populations and include specific actions to The Health System Recovery Table, convened improve the health of Black populations. [...] in the analysis and use of data and in the It must also include the creation of paid positions development, delivery, and monitoring and roles for community ambassadors or trust- of services builders who can help navigate the relationships A BLACK HEALTH PLAN FOR ONTARIO | 21 between the community and health system.