Publications

Build Back Better: Wellbeing Budgets for a Post COVID-19 Recovery?
This Fact Sheet presents the recent turn to wellbeing in the policy making of central governments and considers whether it holds promise as part of the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.

Public Health Ethics and COVID-19: Selected Resources
The NCCHPP has collected relevant resources that discuss ethical issues linked to COVID-19. Each resource is presented with a brief synthesis of what you will find in the document.

Public Policy Competencies for Public Health: A Review of the Literature
This report presents findings from a scoping review with analysis of the literature on competencies for healthy public policy.

Repertoire – Ethics Frameworks for Public Health
This repertoire contains a list of ethics frameworks for public health, with links to the original documents (if they are freely available).

Article – Tools and Methods to Include Health in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies and Policies: A Scoping Review
This scoping review identifies tools and methods that can help to integrate health considerations into climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies and policies.

Tools and Methods for Integrating Health into Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Policies and Strategies
This document presents the results of a scoping review of the literature on existing tools and methods for integrating health concerns into climate change adaptation and mitigation policies and strategies.

Understanding Public Policy Agenda Setting Using the 4 P’s Model: Power, Perception, Potency and Proximity
This briefing note on agenda setting helps one to understand the ranking of government priorities, that is, why some issues are prioritized and others ignored.

How to Collaborate With Municipalities: A Practical Guide for Public Health Actors
This document offers advice based on the perspectives of municipal elected officials and public servants and of public health actors involved in collaborations.

Public Health Ethics and COVID-19: Selected Websites
The NCCHPP has prepared a list of websites with multiple resources that address various ethical issues relevant to COVID-19 and ethics.

An Ethics Framework for Analyzing Paternalism in Public Health Policies and Interventions
This document, based on a longer briefing note, is intended to help public health actors to conduct an ethical analysis of policies that are said to be paternalistic.