Publications
From Theory to Practice: Working Towards Common Principles and Frameworks for Population and Public Health Ethics
This document, produced by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Ethics Office, summarizes the proceedings from a Pre-conference workshop held during the CPHA Annual Conference 2011.
A Workshop on Inequalities Using the Escalators Metaphor – Presentation Kit
The resources in this Presentation Kit, created by Vivian Labrie, are based on a metaphor of up and down escalators. When used to animate a workshop, they provide an opportunity for different actors to share their thoughts about structural and social determinants of inequalities. The kit includes: a facilitator’s guide, a poster template and an introductory PowerPoint.
A Survey of Ethical Principles and Guidance Within Selected Pandemic Plans
This document provides a survey of the explicit goals, ethical principles, and ethics-related recommendations put forward by a selection of national, sub-national and international pandemic preparedness plans and policies.
Framing the Core: Health Inequalities and Poverty in Saskatoon’s Low-Income Neighbourhoods
This document proposes that an awareness of the “frames” used by not-for-profits and public health actors can contribute to more successful partnerships to tackle issues of common interest.
Public Health Ethics – Selected Resources: Ethics in a Pandemic
An introduction to the field of Public Health Ethics (PHE) as applied to policy and practice responses in times of pandemic.
Intersectoral Governance for Health in All Policies: An Integrated Framework
This article proposes an analytical framework for a whole of government approach for public health problems calling for multisectoral participation. It was written as part of an international series of reflections on “Health in all policies” (HiAP) strategies.
Highlights – Public Policies on Nutrition Labelling: Effects and Implementation Issues
This is a ten-page summary of the knowledge synthesis on nutrition labelling, produced to show an applied case of the NCCHPP’s proposed new method for synthesizing knowledge about public policies.
Public Policies on Nutrition Labelling: Effects and Implementation Issues – A Knowledge Synthesis
This document shows how the new method for synthesizing knowledge about public policies proposed by the NCCHPP has been applied to study nutrition-labelling policies.
Summary – Method for Synthesizing Knowledge about Public Policies
This seven-page summary outlines the method proposed by the NCCHPP for overcoming the difficulties underlying the study of public policies.
Four Types of Impact Assessment Used in Canada
This document examines four different Impact Assessment approaches that are used in Canada, including Health Impact Assessment, Environmental Impact Assessment, Strategic Environmental Assessment, and Risk Assessment.