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Collection of Adapted Summaries of Public Health Ethics Frameworks and Very Short Case Studies

Apr 02, 2019

Public Health Ethics, Publications, Publications Ethics

We have started to produce and to gather together these adapted frameworks and cases to help familiarize practitioners with frameworks and with ethical deliberation. To date we have eight frameworks and six cases, and will be adding to these over time. Adapted...

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Approaching Municipalities to Share Knowledge: Advice from Municipal Civil Servants to Public Health Actors

Mar 31, 2019

Knowledge Sharing, Publications, Publications Knowledge Sharing

When public health actors wish to share knowledge in order to influence municipal policies that have an impact on health, they may wonder how to do this. Here are several questions that they might ask: If I wish to share knowledge with a municipality, whom should I...

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Resolving wicked problems: key factors and resources

Mar 10, 2019

Health Inequalities, Publications, Publications Health Inequalities

This document is part of a series of documents, webinars, and workshops on wicked problems. It is meant to highlight key factors and resources for dealing with wicked problems and to offer readers some practical examples for how these may be addressed. Our hope is...

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Fostering Evidence-informed Policy Making: Uncertainty Versus Ambiguity

Jan 15, 2019

Analyzing Public Policies, Publications, Publications Analyzing Public Policies

Policy studies often distinguish between uncertainty, defined as a lack of knowledge about a policy problem or its solution, and ambiguity, defined as the potential to produce more than one interpretation of a problem. With this in mind, reducing uncertainty can be...

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Scan of Mental Health Strategies across Canada

Oct 15, 2018

Population Mental Health, Publications, Publications PMH

The Scan of Mental Health Strategies aims to show what is being developed in the field of population mental health across Canada. It provides an overview of mental health and wellness and related strategies through comparative tables and summaries, with a particular...

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Examples of the Use and Adaptation of the NCCHPP’s Framework for Analyzing Public Policies

Jul 10, 2018

Analyzing Public Policies, Publications, Publications Analyzing Public Policies

The NCCHPP presents a few examples of use and adaptation of its Framework for Analyzing Public Policies by different public health actors in Canada. Please find below six examples collected during a call for stories, launched in December 2017. These examples aim to...

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