Linked Documents:
Highlights of Our Work: POPULATION
AND PUBLIC HEALTH BRANCH BRITISH COLUMBIA: 2002- 2003 Annual Summary
Strategies for Population
Health: Investing in the Health of Canadians, prepared
by the Federal, Provincial and Territorial Advisory Committee on Population
Health for the Meeting of the
Ministers of Health, Halifax, Nova Scotia, September 14-15, 1994.
Guide to Project Evaluation:
A Participatory Approach - Written in plain language, the goal of this Health
Canada evaluation guide is to provide an easy-to-use, comprehensive framework
for project evaluation. This framework can be used to strengthen evaluation
skills and knowledge to assist in the development and implementation of effective
project evaluations.
Reaching
Canadian Communities: Overview of the Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program's Individual
Project Questionnaire Report (1998) - These initial findings confirm that
CPNP is a strong force in Canadian communities: prenatal nutrition projects
do fill important service gaps; they can be an agent for change in the communities
where they operate; and they have an impressive ability to lever local support
- be it in the form of volunteer hours, financial or other in-kind contributions.
The Health Promotion and Programs Branch (now the Population and Public Health
Branch) has defined its working understanding about the population health approach
in the paper Taking
Action on Population Health (1999) . The paper identifies some of the
challenges the Branch and others will face in taking action on population
health
-- as well as some opportunities for moving forward towards widespread participation.
The Jakarta
Declaration on Health Promotion (International Conference on Health Promotion,
1987)
Health
Promotion in Canada: A Case Study, Health Canada, 1997
A
New Perspective on the Health of Canadians, Health Canada, 1974
Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion,
Ottawa Charter for Health
Promotion (World Health Organization, 1986) presents fundamental strategies
and approaches for health promotion that still have much
currency in Canada and internationally.
Achieving
Health for All: A Framework for Health Promotion,
Health Canada, Ottawa, 1986
The Dufferin Mall Story by Health Canada
WHO/EURO
Working Group on Health Promotion Evaluation - Health Canada, through its
involvement in the WHO European Working Group on Health Promotion Evaluation
and WHO's Regional Office in Europe, together with the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention in the United States and Health Education Authority in the United
Kingdom have produced a paper on evaluation
Population Health in Canada: A Working
Paper, prepared for the National Conference on Shared Responsibility for
Health and Social Impact Assessments, the Institute of Health Promotion Research,
University of British Columbia, April, 1999.
Population
Health: An Integrated Model of Population Health and Health Promotion, Health
Canada
Departmental
Performance Report (DPR):
The DPR responds to the government's commitments and reflects the goals set
by Parliament to improve accountability for results. It covers the period ending
March 31 and reports performance against the plans presented in the department's
Part-lll - Reports on Plans and Priorities.
Report
on Plans and Priorities (RPP):
The RPP (Part-lll) are individual expenditure plans for each department and
agency, except Crown corporations. They are tabled in Parliament by the President
of the Treasury Board on behalf of the Ministers who preside over these organizations.
Related Sites:
The chief sites where Canadian and world health policy documents can be found
include:
Health Canada
WHO
Ontario Prevention Clearing
House
The
Georgia Basin Ecosystem Initiative (GBEI) was initiated by Environment Canada
in 1998 and is based on the principles of intersectoral collaboration. The shared
goals of the initiative are enhancing environmental health, building sustainable
communities, and enhancing human well-being.
Canadian Consortium for Health Promotion Research
The mission of the Consortium is to enable Canadians to have greater control
of their health, through the development, dissemination and application of knowledge
on the determinants of health and on health promotion initiatives.
International
Union for Health Promotion and Education
The Metropolis Project is an example of a collaborative and multi-disciplinary
research initiative created to examine immigrant integration, including the
determinants of immigrant health.
The Community Animation Project is designed to address the interrelationship
between human health and sustainable environments.
There are numerous and rich documents on performance measurement on the web.
The United States government lists numerous publications on the subject. The
Treasury Board Secretariat also lists a profile of performance measurement publications
on its web site. The government of Alberta lists on the web a number of publications
relevant to performance measurement in government. The more extensive and complete
bibliographies on performance measurement are found in the United States.
Performance
measurement sites: Fairfax County VA
Local
Government Performance Measurement - Performance Measurement Bibliography
Office of
the B.C. Provincial Health Officer - BC's health goals set out the province's
vision for a healthy population and provide a framework for action to improve
the health of British Columbians and reduce inequalities in the province.
Alberta Health an-d Wellness' Mandate The Government has endorsed broad
health goals for Albertans which reflect the range of factors which determine
health: families, communities and environments, public policy, information,
behaviour, coping skills, heredity and health services.
The Adult Health Division of Health Canada's Population Health Directorate
maintains its own web site.
It provides information on chronic diseases such as hypertension, heart health,
cholesterol, cancer, diabetes and workplace health. The site also has a special
feature on the "Healthy Heart Kit" with information on six mahor risk factors
for cardiovascular diseases and stroke (hypertension, hyperlipidemia, smoking,
dedentary life style, obesity and diabetes).
Recommended Reading:
Population Health in Canada: A Systematic Review, by Michael V. Hayes
and James R. Dunn, Canadian Policy Research Network, Study No. H-01, Ottawa,
1998.
Population Health: Concepts and Methods by T. Kue Young (1998) is intended
for introductory or intermediate courses in epidemiology and community health.
Each chapter includes case studies, which provide short summaries of related
published studies.
Preventive Medicine For The Doctor And His Community. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Leavell, H.R. and Clark, E.G. (1958).
The Evidence of Health Promotion Effectiveness: Shaping Public Health
in a New Europe, A Report for the European Commission by the International Union
for Health Promotion and Education.
Health impact assessment as a tool for population health promotion and public
policy: A report submitted to the Health Promotion Development Division
of Health Canada, by C.J. Frankish, L.W. Green, P.A. Ratner, T.A. Chomik, &
C. Larsen, Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia, Institute of Health
Promotion Research, 1996a.
Setting the stage for health impact assessment. by P. Ratner, L. Green,
J. Frankish, T. Chomik, & C. Larsen, Journal of Public Health Policy, 18(1),
67-79, 1997.
Case study of health goals development in the province of British Columbia
by T.A. Chomik, Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia,
1998.
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