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Harm-reduction approach - Increasingly social workers in addictions treatment programs are taking a harm-reduction approach, instead of an abstinence approach to treatment.. The harm-reduction approach seeks to minimize or reduce the adverse consequences of drug use.

Hate crimes - When people are the targets of violence solely because of who they are, or who they are thought to be, they are the victims of hate crimes. The most common targets of hate-motivated crime are Blacks, Jews and gays.

Healing lodges - They provide residential treatment or both treatment and lodging for people who become overwhelmed by social, emotional and spiritual problems. Currently approximately 50 treatment facilities provide Aboriginal residential healing. The Nechi Institute and Poundmaker's Lodge in Alberta are examples, providing healing and lodging for people dealing with additions.

Health gap - Despite the availability of public health care across the country, there is a serious health gap between the rich and the poor in Canada. The rich are healthier than the middle class, who are in turn healthier than the poor. The well educated are healthier than the less educated, the employed are healthier than the unemployed and so on.

Heterosexism - A system of cultural beliefs, values, and customs that exalts heterosexuality and denies, denigrates, and stigmatizes any non-heterosexual form of behaviour or identity.

Holistic approach to health care - The holistic approach to health care involves not taking into account only the physical aspects of health, which have commonly been addressed by physicians, but also the social, cultural, mental and spiritual aspects of the person.

Holistic healing - This means that the whole of the person and the situation is examined and acted upon.

Home care - Home care involves the provision of health-related care by one person to another in the clientâs home. Home care services generally include the provision of health services by two tiers of workers: professionals, such as social workers, physicians, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists and dieticians, and unregulated workers, such as homemakers, personal support workers and personal care attendants.

Human rights - Those rights which are inherent in our nature and without which we cannot live as human beings. It is based on the recognition of individual political and civil rights and collective cultural, social and economic rights.

Human Rights Codes - Codes of laws designed to protect and advance the rights of specific groups of people in society, minorities and women. For example, the 1980s brought major changes for lesbian and gay communities. During the later part of the decade major legal changes were also gained, particularly the inclusion of sexual orientation in provincial Human Rights Codes (rulings by the Supreme Court of Canada have ensured this inclusion in all provinces and territories).

Human rights commissions - All federal and provincial jurisdictions have legislated rights protection law and have created rights commissions to implement such policy. National human rights legislation in Canada began with the passage of the Canadian Bill of Rights in 1960. Later in that decade other provinces enacted similar legislation, and by 1975, all provinces in Canada had human rights codes.

Human rights legislation - National human rights legislation in Canada began with the passage of the Canadian Bill of Rights in 1960. Later in that decade other provinces enacted similar legislation, and by 1975, all provinces in Canada had human rights codes. The constitutional division of powers determines whether a rights violation complaint is heard at the federal or provincial levels. Grounds of discrimination vary slightly depending on the jurisdiction.

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