Publications

Keywords in Healthy Public Policy
This document explores the meanings of three expressions that are commonly used in public health, following the notion of keywords originally developed by Raymond Williams. The keywords presented here are linked to public policy, the social determinants of health and population health.

Understanding Policy Developments and Choices Through the “3-i” Framework: Interests, Ideas and Institutions
This briefing note is part of a series on the various models used in political science to represent public policy development processes.

Public Policy Models and Their Usefulness in Public Health: The Stages Model
This briefing note introduces the stages model in public policy, a model that allows one to present the complex process of public policy development.

Constructing a Logic Model for a Healthy Public Policy: Why and How?
This briefing note presents a kind of logic model which can be a helpful tool for reflecting on the effectiveness of healthy public policies.

A Framework for Analyzing Public Policies – Practical Guide
This briefing note presents a structured process based on an analytical framework that reflects a public health perspective, while at the same time integrating other concerns that matter in the context of policy making.

Highlights – Public Policies on Nutrition Labelling: Effects and Implementation Issues
This is a ten-page summary of the knowledge synthesis on nutrition labelling, produced to show an applied case of the NCCHPP’s proposed new method for synthesizing knowledge about public policies.

Public Policies on Nutrition Labelling: Effects and Implementation Issues – A Knowledge Synthesis
This document shows how the new method for synthesizing knowledge about public policies proposed by the NCCHPP has been applied to study nutrition-labelling policies.

Summary – Method for Synthesizing Knowledge about Public Policies
This seven-page summary outlines the method proposed by the NCCHPP for overcoming the difficulties underlying the study of public policies.

Method for Synthesizing Knowledge About Public Policies
The Centre proposes this method as a way to overcome the difficulties underlying the study of public policies.

What is Evidence? A Philosophical Perspective
Summary of a presentation by philosopher Daniel Weinstock.