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Webinar – What Can We Learn from Public Health Expenditure Data in Canada from 1975 to 2018?

Jun 09, 2022

Presentations, Presentations or Webinars Public Health Infrastructure, Public Health Infrastructure, Webinars

This webinar presented and discussed key findings from research led and published by Dr. Mehdi Ammi, Professor at Carleton University’s School of Public Policy and Administration in Ottawa, entitled, “Interpreting Forty-Three-Year Trends of Expenditures on Public...

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Public Policy Analysis Tool for Rapid Decision Making in Public Health

May 10, 2022

Analyzing Public Policies, Publications, Publications Analyzing Public Policies

The NCCHPP has collaborated with the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ) to develop a public policy analysis tool adapted to rapid decision-making contexts. This tool is particularly relevant in the context of a health emergency, where decisions must...

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An Ethics Framework for Analyzing Paternalism in Public Health Policies and Interventions

Jun 18, 2020

Public Health Ethics, Publications, Publications Ethics

This document, based on a longer briefing note, is intended to help public health actors to conduct an ethical analysis of policies that are said to be paternalistic. Public health interventions are regularly accused of “paternalism,” because they tend to use the...

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Policy Approaches to Reducing Health Inequalities: A practical exercise using the example of food insecurity

May 20, 2020

Health Inequalities, Publications, Publications Health Inequalities

Before doing the exercise, we recommend that you read the Briefing Note, Policy Approaches to Reducing Health Inequalities. This document provides practical experience in distinguishing between different policy approaches to tackle health inequalities by reducing food...

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Ecological Economics and Public Health: An Interview with Dr. Trevor Hancock

May 20, 2020

Climate Change, Publications, Publications Climate Change

This document, written by Dr. Trevor Hancock, presents the core ideas of ecological economics.In 2019, we reached out to Dr. Trevor Hancock to discuss ways to introduce the core ideas of ecological economics to public health practitioners and decision makers. Those...

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