Five years after the launch of Canada’s Quality of Life Framework, the DEEP R2I 2026 Conference – Governing for Wellbeing: Five Years of Canada’s Quality of Life Agenda examined the Framework’s impact on public policy and decision-making. Held on May...
Centre for Healthy Communities 2023 Innovation Forum
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The Centre for Healthy Communities 2023 Innovation Forum was presented in partnership with Alberta Health Services, the Alberta Real Estate Foundation, the Canadian Cancer Society, and the NCCHPP, this event was held on November 30, 2023. This year’s Forum focused on...
Webinar – The Wellbeing Policy Turn: Four Central Government Initiatives and the Role of Public Health
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The wellbeing of the population has long been a concern for central governments but over time, the measurement of how a country is doing has come to rely largely on economic benchmarks such as average revenue or Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In a rapidly changing...
Whole-of-Government Wellbeing Approaches: A Comparative Analysis of Four Central Government Initiatives
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Context In Canada and elsewhere, the health and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have led governments to reflect on promising avenues to support an economic recovery focused on population health and wellbeing, sustainable development, and equity,...
Wellbeing Budgeting: A Critical Public Health Perspective. Invited Commentary
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Over the past decade, governments have paid increasing attention to wellbeing and quality of life, in addition to economic considerations, as ways measuring how a population is faring. Going ‘beyond GDP’ has the potential to act on upstream determinants of health and,...