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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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Ethics Education in Public Health: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going? – Summary

May 15, 2018

Public Health Ethics, Publications, Publications Ethics

In their article, Doudenkova, Bélisle-Pipon, Ringuette, Ravitsky, & Williams-Jones (2017) set out to review the literature in order to learn about public health ethics (PHE) education in public health programs and schools, specifically: To summarize what the...

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Survey to Identify the Public Health Ethics Needs of Public Health Practitioners in Canada: Preliminary Results

Mar 28, 2018

Public Health Ethics, Publications, Publications Ethics

This document presents a preliminary, graphic summary of results from a questionnaire that was intended to survey Canadian public health practitioners on the subject of public health ethics. The goal of this survey was to add to current knowledge of the extent to...

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Survey on Ethics Teaching in Public Health Schools and Programs in Canada: Preliminary Results

Mar 28, 2018

Public Health Ethics, Publications, Publications Ethics

This document presents a preliminary, graphic summary of results from a survey of university directors of population and public health programs, or professors responsible for ethics teaching, within population and public health schools or programs in Canadian...

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