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The Canadian Health Network (CHN)
is a multi-layered collaboration between major health organizations across Canada
and the Public Health Agency of Canada to provide an electronic gateway to credible,
practical health information on health promotion and disease prevention.
Through
CHN's single gateway, consumers have access to information that can assist them
in making choices about managing their own health and well-being and the health
of people they care about.
Affiliates, key partner organizations and the CHN Division
at the Public Health Agency of Canada form the core of the CHN network. The CHN
collaboration also includes hundreds of organizations that contribute online resources
to the CHN web site. These Network Contributors include federal, provincial and
territorial governments, hospitals, libraries, universities, non-government and
community-based organizations.
Affiliates are recognized Canadian organizations
who are the content specialists for the CHN. Affiliates manage the work related
to building and maintaining the CHN collection by selecting resources for their
specific topics, and they promote the CHN within their own fields of expertise.
Working with other organizations in their topic areas, Affiliates review and choose
quality resources, building and maintaining a collection of e-based health information
for the CHN web site. In addition, Affiliates develop Frequently Asked Questions
for their topic areas, prepare feature articles and respond to health information
requests.
The CHN Division at the Public Health Agency of Canada manages the overall
operation of the Network. This includes financial stewardship of the CHN, providing
the technological platform for the CHN, and coordination of collection development
strategies, evaluation activities and marketing and communications initiatives.
Network
Contributors provide the quality e-health information resources available on the
CHN website. From time to time, working with the Affiliates in their fields of
expertise, Network Contributors may also assist in answering health information
requests, developing frequently asked questions, developing feature articles,
identifying and filling information gaps, and promoting the CHN.
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