CIPHS Collaborative
Terms of Reference iPHIS Program Advisory
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Inventory of Injury Surveillance Data Sources and Surveillance Activities
is composed of Canadian data sources reflecting unintentional and intentional injuries for all age groups. The data sources are presented through a common framework that identifies such things as the purpose of the data source, the injury-related content of collected data, the data collection methods and data availability.

The Injury Surveillance System Framework
and the accompanying report were developed to help identify common goals, strengths and obstacles, within established injury surveillance systems. The framework and report cover all aspects of an injury surveillance system, from its conceptualisation, through implementation onto monitoring and evaluation. The aim is to facilitate the standardization of injury information systems. It follows the stages outlined in Injury Surveillance Guidelines as published by the World Health Organization in 2001.
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Summary Report 2005-2006
Report on National Collaborating Centre Program
Prepared by: Barbara Medlar
Program Manager
Public Health Agency of Canada
Date: 12 May 2006
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• Core competencies
• Learning
• Health Human Resources
• Public Health Practice

" Core competencies reflect the common understanding and set of skills, knowledge and abilities that characterize the public health approach to health issues. Of course, there are many additional competencies that will only be possessed by some members of the public health workforce. These will be collectively referred to as technical competencies and are, by definition, distinct from core competencies. The following is a working definition of technical competencies: Special knowledge, skills or abilities that are not possessed by all public health practitioners and are required for a particular aspect of public health practice. Discipline-specific competencies have been defined as: The breadth and depth of core and technical competencies that are used to define a particular discipline. Discipline-specific competencies would be expected to provide further detail on the depth of proficiency of core competencies that discipline members should possess and the expectations for additional technical competencies. One of the potential advantages of developing core competencies is to create a common framework upon which other competency sets will be based."

Pan-Canadian Public Health Education Initiative: Summary of Three Regional Workshops.
Centre for Surveillance Coordination, Population and Public Health Branch, Health Canada.
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In January and February 2004, Health Canada's Centre for Surveillance Coordination sponsored three regional workshops to gather input and develop consensus among a diverse set of public health practitioners and academics. While it is recognized that assuring a first-class workforce will involve issues beyond training, such as recruitment and retention, job enrichment, and working conditions, the focus of the workshops was on the following public health workforce education issues:
. A vision for education of the public health workforce;
. Current assets and barriers;
. The strategies and actions needed to realize the vision.
The purpose of this paper is to summarize the key themes that emerged from the regional workshops for future policy development

Public Health Practice