This paper, by Wendy Mendes of the University of British Columbia, is intended to familiarize the reader with a sustainability approach to the implementation of healthy food policies. Sustainability policies reflect decisions that touch social, economic, cultural and...

Food policy councils are not-for-profit organizations composed of representatives from different and diverse sectors of the food system. They collaborate to find practical solutions to the challenges relating to managing food systems at the local and even national...

This article proposes an analytical framework for a whole of government approach for public health problems calling for multisectoral participation. It was written as part of an international series of reflections on “Health in all policies” (HiAP)...

It is not just in public health or in government sectors that people are talking about working multisectorally. It is a general phenomenon, but in terms of creating healthy public policy in complex environments, it is becoming ever clearer that learning how to work...

During the production of the NCCHPP’s Integrated Governance and Healthy Public Policy: Two Canadian Examples, the authors also produced a glossary of key terms in the area of integrated governance. Terms Relating to Integrated Governance5 pages The concepts and...