Publications
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.
Method for Synthesizing Knowledge About Public Policies
The Centre proposes this method as a way to overcome the difficulties underlying the study of public policies.
Ethical Questions During a Pandemic – Case Studies
A collection of pandemic and infectious disease control scenarios, intended to stimulate ethical reflection within the public health sector.
HIA and Inequities
This paper focuses on how HIA invites health practitioners to take not only the impacts on the health of the population into consideration, but also how these impacts could have differential effects on some groups of the population.