Resources

HIA in Québec: when the law becomes a lever for action

Oct 15, 2008

Health Impact Assessment, Publications, Publications HIA

This study traces the history of Health Impact Assessment in Québec since 2001, paying critical attention to the implementation of section 54 of Québec’s Public Health Act and the mechanisms within the provincial government to foster its adoption. The authors of...

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Public Policies Guided by the Precautionary Principle

Oct 15, 2008

Public Health Ethics, Publications, Publications Ethics

This paper is the first in a series of essays developed for the NCCHPP by researchers associated with the Centre de recherche en éthique de l’Université de Montréal (Université de Montréal Research Centre in Ethics) as part of a project to examine ethical issues...

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Report on the Canadian Roundtable on Health Impact Assesment (HIA)

Sep 15, 2008

Health Impact Assessment, Publications, Publications HIA

The NCCHPP has gathered together an expert Health Impact Assessment (HIA) reference group. In February, 2008 we hosted a Roundtable on HIA in the Canadian context. Some twenty people from Canada and abroad were invited to discuss, with members of the NCCHPP, the...

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Working with the Commission on the Social Determinants of Health Framework in the Canadian Context

Aug 15, 2008

Health Inequalities, Presentations, Presentations or Webinars Health Inequalities

This plenary session involving the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health, National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health and the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy explored the work of the World Health Organization (WHO)...

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The Centre speaks to the Senate Subcommittee about health impact assessment

Jul 15, 2008

Health Impact Assessment, Presentations, Presentations or Webinars HIA

Following the NCCHPP presentation to the Senate Subcommittee in April 2008, the Centre was invited to return to make a presentation on Health Impact Assessment. In this presentation, Louise St-Pierre focused on two questions:.Is it necessary and realistic to implement...

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Evidence and Healthy Public Policy: Insights from Health and Political Sciences

Jun 05, 2008

Analyzing Public Policies, Publications, Publications Analyzing Public Policies

Policy makers are often challenged when producing public policy to consider the role of evidence, especially scientific evidence. CPRN Research Fellow Patrick Fafard (University of Ottawa) explores this challenge in Evidence and Healthy Public Policy: Insights from...

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