Publications
When to Perform a Health Impact Assessment (HIA)?
Recognizing the conditions that make HIA an appropriate choice for a given situation is an issue central to the consolidation of the practice in Canada. This briefing note aims to clarify the specificity of HIA as compared to similar public health practices.
Introduction to Public Health Ethics 3: Frameworks for Public Health Ethics
This document introduces, compares and critiques eight ethics frameworks for public health.
Introduction to Public Health Ethics 2: Philosophical and Theoretical Foundations
This document offers an overview of various theoretical perspectives informing public health ethics, including its philosophical underpinnings.
Health Inequalities and Intersectionality
This briefing note briefly explains intersectionality and explores the potential of an intersectional approach to reducing health inequalities.
Social Media in Public Health
This document outlines the use of social media by organizations with a public health focus.
An introduction to the horizontal coordination of public policies: Usefulness, facilitating factors, obstacles, and current challenges
This briefing note by Jacques Bourgault and Pernelle Smits presents the facilitating factors and challenges of the horizontal approach in public policies.
Summary – The Principle of Reciprocity: How Can it Inform Public Health and Healthy Public Policies?
This paper provides a very short summary of a longer paper of the same name. It outlines the principle of reciprocity as it may be applied in the ethics of public health.
The Principle of Reciprocity: How Can it Inform Public Health and Healthy Public Policies?
This document outlines the principle of reciprocity as it may be applied in the ethics of public health.
Defining a Population Mental Health Framework for Public Health
This briefing note discusses the roles of public health practitioners in advancing mental health, and outlines a framework for population mental health.
Series on Integrated Impact Assessment (IIA). 6-Main challenges and issues tied to IIA
This briefing note is the sixth in a series of six focused on the state of the practice of integrated impact assessment.