This briefing note presents a kind of logic model which can be a helpful tool for reflecting on the effectiveness of healthy public policies. This document outlines the process for constructing a logic model as proposed in the NCCHPP’s method for synthesizing...

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. This guide is meant for public health actors who...

This document summarizes the highlights of a knowledge synthesis on nutrition-labelling policies: the effectiveness of these policies in the fight against obesity, their unintended effects, their equity-related issues, their costs, feasibility, and acceptability for...

This document illustrates the knowledge synthesis method adapted to public policies that the Centre has developed. It offers a practical overview of how to use this method to study a public policy (in the present case, nutrition labelling), and the results that it can...

Because the study of public policies involves particular challenges, the Centre has developed a knowledge synthesis method that is adapted to meet them. This method enables one to document the effects and equity of the policies under study, as well as implementation...

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...