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Webinar – Wicked Problems: What Are They and What Can Public Health Do About Them?

Nov 26, 2015

Health Inequalities, Presentations, Presentations or Webinars Health Inequalities, Webinars

This webinar presented by Val Morrison offered a general overview of the concept of wicked problems, particularly as they relate to healthy public policy. This webinar was part of a series of webinars organized by the National Collaborating Centres for Public Health...

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Knowledge Sharing and Public Policies: Method and Preliminary Results of a Literature Review

Nov 16, 2015

Knowledge Sharing, Publications, Publications Knowledge Sharing

What can we learn from published research about experiences of knowledge sharing targeting public policies? We have conducted a review of the literature on this subject in order to draw lessons that may be useful to public health actors. This document presents the...

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Querying Databases to Identify Documents on Knowledge Sharing Targeting Public Policies: Example of One Study

Nov 16, 2015

Knowledge Sharing, Publications, Publications Knowledge Sharing

Putting together relevant combinations of keywords to identify documents discussing complex subjects in databases is not easy. Within the context of carrying out a review of the literature on knowledge sharing targeting public policies, we developed a query to search...

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A Public Policy Competency Framework for Public Health Actors

Nov 16, 2015

Analyzing Public Policies, Publications, Publications Analyzing Public Policies

This document represents an effort to develop a full competency framework for public health actors in their public policy-related work. It is primarily intended for public health professionals who participate in framing both organizational and professional...

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Webinar – Public Health Ethics in Practice: Applying Frameworks to Cases

Oct 01, 2015

Presentations, Presentations or Webinars Ethics, Public Health Ethics, Webinars

During this webinar, we introduced participants to: The general nature and role of ethics frameworks in public health, Summary versions of two public health ethics frameworks, and Cases (drawn from public health and related to healthy public policy) for deliberation...

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Summary – Solidarity in Public Health Ethics and Practice: Its Conceptions, Uses and Implications

Jul 07, 2015

Public Health Ethics, Publications, Publications Ethics

This paper provides a summary of a longer paper of the same name. It outlines the principle of solidarity as it may be applied in the ethics of public health. This paper summarizes the central components and the more variable dimensions of solidarity proposed by...

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