Publications Archives

A Workshop on Inequalities Using the Escalators Metaphor – Presentation Kit

Sep 06, 2011

Health Inequalities, Publications, Publications Health Inequalities

In 2003, a group of persons living in poverty compared society to a landing from which one escalator goes up and another escalator goes down. “Poverty” they essentially told some parliamentarians, “is like having to go up a down escalator. Instead of...

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A Survey of Ethical Principles and Guidance Within Selected Pandemic Plans

Jun 06, 2011

Public Health Ethics, Publications, Publications Ethics

This document provides a survey of the explicit goals, ethical principles, and ethics-related recommendations put forward by a selection of national, sub-national and international pandemic preparedness plans and policies. Moral theories and concepts draw attention to...

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Framing the Core: Health Inequalities and Poverty in Saskatoon’s Low-Income Neighbourhoods

Jun 01, 2011

Health Inequalities, Publications, Publications Health Inequalities

This document presents a description of the five key frames used respectively by Quint Development Corporation and the Saskatoon Health Region in discussions of the communities, particularly the city’s lowest income neighbourhoods, they serve. These frames...

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Public Health Ethics – Selected Resources: Ethics in a Pandemic

May 11, 2011

Public Health Ethics, Publications, Publications Ethics

An introduction to the field of Public Health Ethics (PHE) as applied to policy and practice responses in times of pandemic. This document is based on a review of the literature on this subject carried out by the NCCHPP between May and August of 2009. It contains a...

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Intersectoral Governance for Health in All Policies: An Integrated Framework

Apr 06, 2011

Health in All Policies, Publications, Publications HIAP

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)...

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Highlights – Public Policies on Nutrition Labelling: Effects and Implementation Issues

Feb 24, 2011

Analyzing Public Policies, Publications, Publications Analyzing Public Policies

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...

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