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	The Integrated Pan-Canadian Healthy Living Strategy - approved by Federal, Provincial and Territorial Ministers of Health at their annual Conference, held on October 22 and 23, 2005 in Toronto, Ontario.

Welcome to the website of the Integrated Pan-Canadian Healthy Living Strategy - approved by Federal, Provincial and Territorial Ministers of Health at their annual Conference, held on October 22 and 23, 2005 in Toronto, Ontario.

The Integrated Pan-Canadian Healthy Living Strategy

The Healthy Living Strategy provides a conceptual framework for sustained action based on Healthy Living. It envisions a healthy nation in which all Canadians experience the conditions that support the attainment of good health. The goals of the Strategy are to improve overall health outcomes and to reduce health disparities. Grounded in a population health approach, the initial emphasis is on healthy eating, physical activity, and their relationship to healthy weights.

Included in the Strategy are pan-Canadian healthy living targets - which seek to obtain a 20% increase in the proportion of Canadians who are physically active, eat healthy and are at healthy body weights. While ambitious, these targets can be achieved through collaborative action and will serve to sustain momentum from the 10 percentage point, year 2010 physical activity target set by Ministers responsible and for Physical Activity, Recreation and Sport in 2003.

While the Healthy Living goals and targets provide a standard reference point for all sectors to measure the success of their own strategies and interventions, to be successful, coordinated effort is required. Proposed action has developed through intersectoral working groups, and will be considered in the implementation of the Strategy.

The Strategy offers a means to ensure greater alignment, coordination and direction for all sectors, and provides a forum for multiple players to align efforts and to work collaboratively to address common risk factors. This integration ensures that stakeholders are better and more broadly informed, thereby facilitating greater synergy and improved identification of opportunities across sectors. The intersectoral nature of the Healthy Living Strategy also provides a national context and reference point for all sectors, governments and Aboriginal organizations to measure success of their own strategies and interventions.

The Strategy is a culmination of three years of consultation and input from a wide variety of people and organizations across all sectors. The following groups made the development of this Strategy possible:

• The Healthy Living Task Group
• F-P/T Advisory Committee on Population Health and Healthy Security
• The Coordinating Committee of the Intersectoral Healthy Living Network
• The Priorities and Objectives Working Group
• The Public Information Working Group
• The Research and Surveillance Working Group
• The Intersectoral Fund Working Group