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Four Types of Impact Assessment Used in Canada

Feb 23, 2011

Health Impact Assessment, Publications, Publications HIA

This document examines four different Impact Assessment approaches that are used in Canada, including Health Impact Assessment, Environmental Impact Assessment, Strategic Environmental Assessment, and Risk Assessment. Various types of impact assessment are practised...

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Method for Synthesizing Knowledge About Public Policies

Sep 15, 2010

Analyzing Public Policies, Publications, Publications Analyzing Public Policies

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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Ethical Questions During a Pandemic – Case Studies

Apr 15, 2010

Public Health Ethics, Publications, Publications Ethics

A collection of pandemic and infectious disease control scenarios, intended to stimulate ethical reflection within the public health sector. The discipline of moral philosophy has much to offer public health. This is perhaps nowhere more evident than when planning for...

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HIA and Inequities

Mar 15, 2010

Health Impact Assessment, Publications, Publications HIA

This paper focuses on how HIA invites health practitioners to take not only the impacts on the health of the population into consideration, but also how these impacts could have differential effects on some groups of the population. HIA and Inequities5 pages ...

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Thirteen Public Interventions in Canada That Have Contributed to a Reduction in Health Inequalities

Feb 15, 2010

Health Inequalities, Publications, Publications Health Inequalities

The National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy asked researchers at the Centre Léa Roback, a research centre on health inequalities, to report on programs and policies in Canada whose results were evaluated according to evidence-based standards, including...

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What is Evidence? A Philosophical Perspective

Jan 15, 2010

Analyzing Public Policies, Publications, Publications Analyzing Public Policies

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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