Resources

When to Perform a Health Impact Assessment (HIA)?

Mar 31, 2015

Health Impact Assessment, Publications, Publications HIA

Recognizing the conditions that make HIA an appropriate choice for a given situation is an issue central to the consolidation of the practice in Canada. This briefing note aims to clarify the specificity of HIA as compared to similar public health practices. Although...

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Introduction to Public Health Ethics 3: Frameworks for Public Health Ethics

Mar 20, 2015

Public Health Ethics, Publications, Publications Ethics

This document introduces, compares and critiques eight ethics frameworks for public health. The purpose of this paper, the third in the series by Dr. Marjorie MacDonald of the University of Victoria, is to present, compare and critique selected ethics frameworks for...

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Introduction to Public Health Ethics 2: Philosophical and Theoretical Foundations

Mar 20, 2015

Public Health Ethics, Publications, Publications Ethics

This document offers an overview of various theoretical perspectives informing public health ethics, including its philosophical underpinnings. In this second of three briefing notes on public health ethics, Dr. Marjorie MacDonald of the University of Victoria...

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Webinar – Analyzing and Evaluating Healthy Public Policies: Tools and Resources

Feb 13, 2015

Analyzing Public Policies, Presentations, Presentations and Webinars Analyzing

Public health professionals and community stakeholders working to influence the development of healthy public policies have identified the need to better understand the merit, worth, and utility of these policies. Therefore, Public Health Ontario and the NCCHPP have...

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Health Inequalities and Intersectionality

Jan 26, 2015

Health Inequalities, Publications, Publications Health Inequalities

This briefing note briefly explains intersectionality and explores the potential of an intersectional approach to reducing health inequalities. Intersectionality is a way to think about and act upon social inequality and discrimination. It offers a promising approach...

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Supporting Public Policy Production in Public Health by Sharing Evidence: The Policy Stages Model and the Punctuated Equilibrium Model

Jan 21, 2015

Analyzing Public Policies, Presentations, Presentations and Webinars Analyzing

The NCCHPP’s François Benoit offered this presentation for the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Centre for Public Health Infrastructure, in Ottawa on January 21, 2015. This presentation illustrates how two public policy models, the stages model and the...

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