During the production of the NCCHPP’s Integrated Governance and Healthy Public Policy: Two Canadian Examples, the authors also produced a glossary of key terms in the area of integrated governance. Terms Relating to Integrated Governance5 pages The concepts and...
Exchange Day – Evidence and policy-making at JASP 2008
Analyzing Public Policies, Presentations, Presentations and Webinars Analyzing
It is now clear that public policies are a lever for improving population health and well-being. What types of evidence should be used to support the adoption of healthy public policies? Some believe that evidence should be drawn from scientific experimentation, in...
HIA in Québec: when the law becomes a lever for action
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...
Public Policies Guided by the Precautionary Principle
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...
Report on the Canadian Roundtable on Health Impact Assesment (HIA)
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...
Working with the Commission on the Social Determinants of Health Framework in the Canadian Context
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)...