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Method for Synthesizing Knowledge About Public Policies

Sep 15, 2010

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Public policy can act as a lever for action that affects population health. Therefore, public health actors are called upon to produce knowledge syntheses in order to inform decision makers during the promotion, adoption and implementation of public policies. But...

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Understanding Media Communications: The Encoding / Decoding Approach

Jun 29, 2010

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During this workshop, held on June 29, 2010 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Val Morrison set out to: Illustrate how even the best-conceived communications products (posters, various public health campaigns, etc.) can be interpreted in radically different ways by their intended...

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What is Evidence? A Philosophical Perspective

Jan 15, 2010

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Professor Daniel Weinstock’s keynote address at the National Collaborating Centres for Public Health 2007 Summer Institute starts out with the claim that ‘Evidence is not proof.’ He then goes on to discuss what evidence is, clarifying our...

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The contribution of political science to the study of health policies. State of course offerings and research in Canadian universities.

Apr 15, 2009

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The NCCHPP seeks to make work from the different disciplines of the social sciences available to public health actors. This bridging role between public health and the social sciences is achieved in a variety of ways. Notably, the NCCHPP has a goal to identify the...

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Exchange Day – Evidence and policy-making at JASP 2008

Nov 19, 2008

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It is now clear that public policies are a lever for improving population health and well-being. What types of evidence should be used to support the adoption of healthy public policies? Some believe that evidence should be drawn from scientific experimentation, in...

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Evidence and Healthy Public Policy: Insights from Health and Political Sciences

Jun 05, 2008

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Policy makers are often challenged when producing public policy to consider the role of evidence, especially scientific evidence. CPRN Research Fellow Patrick Fafard (University of Ottawa) explores this challenge in Evidence and Healthy Public Policy: Insights from...

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