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The Approach
Investment in Population Health in Five OECD Countries
OECD
Health Working Papers N-2, 2003 
There is growing interest in the potential for preventive interventions to
improve average health status in OECD countries and to tackle remaining health
inequalities. The paper focuses on population health investment in Australia,
Canada, Korea, Sweden and Switzerland.
Creative Spice: Learning From Communities
About Putting The Population Health Approach Into Action (2002)
Is a synthesis and discussion of the lessons learned by participants in eleven
voluntary-sector projects in BC and the Yukon that received funding assistance
from Health Canada's Population Health Fund to put a population health approach
into action at the community level.
The Limitations of Population Health as a Model for a New Public Health:
A Critical Analysis.
Raphael, D., & Bryant, T. Health Promotion International, 17, 189-199.
(2002)
Changing Approaches to
Health: The History of a Federal/Provincial/Territorial Advisory Committee
(2001)
Provides an overview and history of the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Advisory
Committee.
The
Population Health Template: Key Elements and Actions That Define A Population
Health Approach (2001)
Organizes and consolidates current understandings of population health.
The template outlines the procedures and processes required to implement a
population health approach.
Also see: The
Population Health Template Working Tool and Overview/Handout (colour
version / black
and white version)
Health Beyond Health
Care: Twenty-five Years of Federal Health Policy Development
Provides a historical context and identifies the conditions that foster policy
innovations within the public sector, and the challenges ahead to implementation
of population health insights.
Putting the Population Into Population Health.
Raphael, D. & Bryant, T. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 91, 9-12. (2000)
HORIZONS Newsletter:
Population health Edition (1999)
Articles highlight early child hood development; social inequalities in health;
global perspectives on health and more.
Health Promotion and the Common Good: Theoretical Considerations.
Robertson, A. Critical Public Health, 9, 117-133. (1999)
Information/Resources/Links
for Population Health Website (1999)
Provides a listing of population health information and resources available
on the internet (Sept/Oct, 1999).
Population Health in Canada: A Systematic Review (1998)
By Michael V. Hayes and James R. Dunn (Canadian
Policy Research Network Study No. H01, 1998)
Traces the development of population health through major source documents,
critiques, policy documents, and technical papers that espouse or engage the
ideas of population health.
Shifting Discourses on Health in Canada: From Health Promotion to Population
Health.
Robertson, A. Health Promotion International, 13, 155-166. (1998)
Taking
Action On Population Health (1998)
Provides Health Canada employees with an understanding of what the approach
means to their work, offers a review of its evolution and links to health
promotion.
Wealth, Equity, and Health care: a Critique of a Population Health Perspective
on the Determinants of Health.
Poland. B., Coburn, D., Robertson, A., & Eakin, J. Social Science and Medicine,
46, 785-798. (1998)
National
Forum on Health (1997)
Series of five reports provide a invaluable reference guide for all those interested
in health and health care issues. The Forum officially ended its operations
in 1997.
Paradigms Lost: Examining the Impact of a Shift from Health Promotion to
Population Health on HIV/AIDS Policy and Program in Canada.
Wong, D. Ottawa: Canadian AIDS Society. (1997)
Integrated
Model of Population Health and Health Promotion (1996)
Examines how population health and health promotion are related.
The Population Health/Health Promotion Debate in Canada: The politics of
explanation, economics, and action.
Labonte, R. Critical Public Health, 7, 7-27. (1997)
The CIAR vision of the determinants of health: A critique.
Coburn, D. & Poland, B. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 87, 308-310.
(1996)
Population Health Promotion:
An Integrated Model of Population Health and Health Promotion (1996)
Examines how population health and health promotion are related.
Towards a
Common Understanding: Clarifying Core Concepts of Population Health - A Discussion
Paper (1996)
Promotes a common understanding of population health and describes how a population
health approach will guide future program and policy development within Health
Canada.
Report
of the Roundtable on Population Health and Health Promotion (1996)
Summarizes the key elements, noting areas of agreement and disagreement, and
highlighting recommendations for follow-up developed by the participants.
Population Health and Health Promotion: What do they have to say to each
other?
Labonte, R. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 86, 165-168. (1995)
Why Population Health?
Frank, J. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 86, 162-164. (1995)
Strategies
for Population Health - Investing in the Health of Canadians (1994)
Identifies broad population health strategies on which the provincial, territorial
and federal governments could collaborate and achieve significant results.
Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not?
By the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research.
Highlights observations that have heretofore been difficult to explain within
traditional clinical or health promotion understandings of what makes some populations
healthier than others. (1994)
Achieving
Health For All: A Framework For Health Promotion (1986)
Proposed an approach called "health promotion", an integration of ideas from
several arenas of public health, health education and public policy.
Ottawa Charter
for Health Promotion (1986)
Presents fundamental strategies and approaches for health promotion that still
have much currency in Canada and internationally.
A New Perspective
on the Health of Canadians (1974)
The 1974 report on health promotion that led to an evolution in thinking
about health.
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