Publications
Policy Approaches to Reducing Health Inequalities: Social Determinants of Health and of Health Inequalities
This document explores the social determinants of health and the social determinants of health inequalities.
Population Mental Health in Canada: An Overview of the Context, Stakeholders and Initiatives to Support Action in Public Health
This briefing note proposes a portrait of the context, stakeholders and initiatives that support public health action in population mental health in Canada.
Selected Tools to Facilitate the Integration of Health in All Policies
The intent of this briefing note is to introduce some tools developed in recent years to facilitate the integration of health issues into the decision-making processes of sectors whose primary concern is not population health.
Main Types of Needs of the Public Health Workforce for Population Mental Health
This document is the final report on the main types of needs identified by the broad public health workforce as they relate to population mental health.
Mental Health in the Field of Health Impact Assessment
This briefing note provides a perspective on current practice of mental health impact assessment of projects, programs or policies.
Policy Approaches to Reducing Health Inequalities
This briefing note is intended to help public health actors to more easily distinguish between broad approaches to reducing health inequalities.
Utilitarianism in Public Health
In this paper, we introduce utilitarian ethics and consider the role of utilitarianism in public health.
‘Principlism’ and Frameworks in Public Health Ethics
This paper introduces principlism as an ethical approach and considers what role some of its features might play in public health.
Knowledge Sharing and Public Policies: Method and Preliminary Results of a Literature Review
This document maps the knowledge-sharing contexts studied in the 105 documents selected for our literature review on knowledge sharing targeting public policies. The companion interactive table makes it possible to sort these documents by type of context studied.
Querying Databases to Identify Documents on Knowledge Sharing Targeting Public Policies: Example of One Study
This short document presents a ready-to-copy search query designed to query databases through the OVID, EBSCO and ProQuest interfaces.