Resources
The resources listed in this section have been identified by our Program staff, Workgroup members, and OPHA Members as useful information to share with our public health colleagues. This is not meant to be a complete or comprehensive listing of public health resources. The resources are listed by topic or issue. Each resource has been listed by keyword and cross-referenced to secondary words for easy navigating.
See also the Public Health Orientation Kit section for other sources of information on public health.
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Alcohol is one of the most widely available psychoactive drugs. Both alcohol use and violence share some common physiological, social, and economic variables. While the link between alcohol consumption and violent behaviour has been well established, the mechanisms – social and environmental influences – by which this occurs, are not fully understood. This association highlights the need to gain a better understanding of the contributing factors associated with alcohol-related violence. Read the recent report from the Alcohol Policy Network for more details.
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The Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance (OCDPA), in consultation with external experts, has developed messages for use by individuals, groups and organizations to focus attention and promote collective action on chronic disease prevention issues and to improve the health of Ontarians. The evidence-informed messages address the following chronic disease risk factors: High-Risk Alcohol Consumption; Physical Inactivity; Poor Mental Health; Tobacco Use Exposure; and Unhealthy Eating.
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The Core Competencies for Public Health in Canada website features three interactive elearning modules: an Orientation Module, designed to increase awareness and knowledge of the Core Competencies; the Public Health Competency Based Employee Performance Management module, which is intended to support the learning and development activities of individuals in public health; and Public Health Competency Based Employee Performance Management Toolkit, which includes a Leader's Guide, Guidebook, and Tools. Each of the modules is designed to guide the public health professional through Competency Based Performance Management for public health and provide you with opportunities to demonstrate your understanding of and ability to use competencies to support Performance Management and other human resources (HR) activities. The modules use a step-by-step self-guided audio/visual approach.
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The Healthy Communities Consortium quarterly newsletter. As community partnerships establish or expand their membership and start developing their comprehensive community pictures, the need for clarity around roles and responsibilities, structure, and governance start to emerge. Governance is acknowledged as a key factor in the success of partnerships, coalitions, organizations, as well as governments; it is needed anytime a group of people come together to accomplish a goal. Partnerships and coalitions run smoothly and are more effective when an agreed upon, appropriate governance structure is in place to support their many functions. This resource includes governance models and approaches, form that supports function, organizing for success, working toward good governance, and references.
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The OPHA Public Health Alliance for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transgender, Two-Spirit, Intersex, Queer and Questioning Equity WorkGroup has produced this manual to aid in making your community health centre, public health unit, or community agency inclusive to those of all sexual orientations and gender identities. Divided in to four sections, including a list of Resources, it is hoped that it will make it easier to utilize the ideas and resources and adapt them to your needs. The WorkGroup requests that you include an acknowledgement of the source in your customized version.
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In November, 2005, the OPHA Environmental Health Program released this report which examines emissions from school buses and recommends the establishment of a Healthy School Bus Program that is directed at improving children’s health and local air quality. School buses are predominantly heavy-duty diesel vehicles that emit significant quantities of diesel-related air pollutants such as fine particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, and diesel particulate matter as they travel to and from our children’s schools. They can also be self-polluting vehicles that expose children on-board to high levels of fine particulate matter and diesel particulate matter. These air pollutants have been clearly associated with a broad spectrum of acute and chronic impacts.