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Child and Youth Health

last reviewed: August 2010

Children's Health and the Environment

last reviewed: January 2010

Chronic Disease Prevention

  • Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance (OCDPA) website - The OCDPA is a coalition of more than 30 health care organizations committed to providing collaborative leadership to support a chronic disease prevention system for Ontario. OPHA is proud to be one of the Core Partners.

  • Air Quality, Human Health and the Built Environment: Protecting Air Quality through the Land Use Planning Process [PDF] - This report examines the ways in which the built environment can impact air quality and identifies the ways in which air quality can be affected by land use and transportation planning decisions that are within the influence of local and regional governments. It discusses walkability, transit supportiveness, the size, mix and energy efficiency of housing, and alternative energies as issues related to local air quality. It also discusses airshed modelling as a tool for assessing the impacts of various policies and decisions on air quality. Kim Perrotta, Senior Policy Analyst, Halton Region Health Department, 2007.

  • Creating Walkable and Transit-Supportive Communities in Halton [PDF] - This report begins by identifying improved air quality, reductions in greenhouse gases, and increases in physical activity as the benefits that result from walkable and transit supportive communities. Using health and planning literatures, it discusses the many parameters that make a community walkable and/or transit-supportive under the headings of land use density, land use diversity, and land use design. This report was prepared to support the development of implementation guidelines for the Official Plan in the Region of Halton. Kristie Daniel, Senior Policy Analyist, and Kim Perrotta, Senior Health and Environment Advisor. Halton Region Health Department. 2009.

  • Toxic Use Reduction (TUR) Legislation Recommendations [PDF], 2008 - The Take Charge on Toxics campaign — a partnership including the Ontario Division of the Canadian Cancer Society, the Canadian Environmental Law Association, United Steelworkers, The Toronto Cancer Prevention Coalition and OPHA committed to supporting the development of an environmental and occupational carcinogen use reduction strategy in Ontario — has developed a set of ten recommendations to be promoted in the process of creating toxic use reduction regulations.

  • Primer to Action – Social Determinants of Health, May, 2008. - This report is a resource for health professionals, lay workers, volunteers and activists to explore how the social determinants impact chronic disease. It is intended to help you navigate through barriers in your organization or group and offer concrete ‘primers’ to get you going with action to increase access to the social determinants for yourself, your family, and those with whom you work. We will regularly update the information, and listen closely to your feedback.

  • Moving the Healthy Eating and Active Living Strategy Forward in Ontario - This consultative report describes four priorities for action which need to take place in order to move Ontario’s Action Plan for Healthy Eating and Active Living (HEAL) forward. Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance, 2008

  • Poverty and Chronic Disease: Recommendations for Action - The intent of this brief is to outline approved messages to position CDPAC and the participating provincial/territorial alliances with common messaging to reduce poverty in Canada. This brief will first outline the evidence linking poverty and chronic disease, followed by recommendations for action at the federal, provincial/territorial and program levels, as well as for the voluntary sector. Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada, 2008

  • The CUBE project: national consultation meeting report - As a part of the alignment process, CDPAC convened a national meeting in Ottawa on November 26, 2007 that involved discussions between approximately 50 chronic disease prevention stakeholders across Canada and the five national chronic disease strategies. Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada, 2008

  • A Discussion Document: A Conceptual Framework for Facilitating Alignement of Primary Prevention Priorities Across Disease Strategy in Canada - The purpose of this project, which is officially entitled "The CUBE: Facilitating Alignment of Primary Prevention Priorities Across Comprehensive Chronic Disease Strategies", is to develop a common planning framework that will guide decision making and provides the impetus for long-term systems changes that will improve population health in Canada. Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada, 2008

  • Comparative Analysis of National Disease-Specific Strategies - This report is aimed at informing the ongoing work of the project stakeholders. The main focus of this report will be a comparative analysis of existing or developing primary prevention strategies within the context of major chronic diseases in Canada. Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada, 2008

  • Primary Prevention of Chronic Diseases in Canada: A Framework for Action - This report is aimed at informing the ongoing work of the project stakeholders. The main focus of this report will be a comparative analysis of existing or developing primary prevention strategies within the context of major chronic diseases in Canada. Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada, 2008

  • Collaborative Knowledge Exchange: Enhancing CDPAC’s Capacity - This report presents the outcome of a project examining how the Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada (CDPAC) could enhance its capacity for collaborative knowledge exchange. Funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada, through the PHAC Best Practices Observatory, the project incorporated multi-stage consultation process designed undertaken to examine CDPAC’s current landscape and to consider future possibilities. Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada, 2008

  • Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada Policy Consensus Conference - Obesity and the Impact of Marketing on Children [PDF] - This report summarizes the national policy consensus conference held in Ottawa on March 4-5, 2008, entitled “Obesity and the Impact of Marketing on Children”, organized by the Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada. Medical Officer of Health, 2008

  • Developing a Community of Practice Model for Cancer and Chronic Disease Prevention [PDF] - This project sought to develop recommendations for the design and implementation of a Community of Practice (CoP) model to support shared priorities for cancer and chronic disease prevention. Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada, 2008

  • Special Diets Expert Review Committee Final Report [PDF] - The Ministry of Community and Social Services ("Ministry") established the Special Diets Expert Review Committee ("Committee") in June 2006 to provide advice to the Ministry regarding the content of the Special Diets Schedule. The Ministry of Community and Social Services, 2008

  • Economic Cost for Chronic Disease in Canada – 1995-2003 - This report is intended to provide an overview of the economic impact of chronic disease for a wide range of audiences, including government, policy makers, various industries, program developers, frontline healthcare workers, and individuals in the community. Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance, 2007

  • Cancer and the Environment in Ontario: Gap Analysis on the Reduction of Environmental Carcinogens [PDF, 338kb], July 20, 2007 - This paper examines overall regulatory strategies that are used to reduce the use and release of toxic substances within Ontario, and those in the United States and the European Union, with the understanding that its purpose is to explore how environmental carcinogens are controlled within these regulatory strategies.

  • Report: Why Health Care Renewal Matters: Lessons from Diabetes [PDF] - In this report, we look at diabetes as a case study to examine the way chronic health conditions are diagnosed, managed and treated in this country. The report explores changes in lifestyle and care that can have profound, practical and positive effects on the health and quality of life of Canadians with chronic health conditions.

  • Health-evidence.ca has released 35 new summary statements related to cancer prevention and early detection - April 2007

    Summary statements provide an overview of research syntheses and are divided into five distinct sections: 1) an overview of the review content including details of the findings, the population, the interventions evaluated, and outcomes 2) the quality of the review; 3) the significance of the health issue/problem for the Canadian public health system; 4) a summary of the results and implications for policy and practice; and 5) additional relevant sources of quality evidence and resources. The majority of the summary statements have been written from systematic reviews of strong methodological quality.

  • Chronic Disease in Ontario and Canada: Determinants, Risk Factors and Prevention Priorities - This report draws links between evidence, determinants, and risk factors of chronic disease in Canada, and considers options for health messages and action steps in chronic disease prevention. It is also designed to inform best practices by providing an overview of available evidence. Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance, 2006

  • Thinking like a system: The way forward to prevent chronic disease in Ontario, March 2006 - In this document, the Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance (OCDPA) sets out its proposed plan and model for a province-wide system that enables effective coordinated planning, delivery and continuous improvement of health promotion and chronic disease prevention interventions at a population level.

  • Informing Directions for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management in Ontario: Environmental Scan of Chronic Disease Prevention and Management Strategies in Ontario and Collaboration Efforts of the Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance - This report broadens an environmental scan report begun by the OCDPA in 2003. Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance, 2005

last reviewed: January 2010

Core Competencies in Public Health

last reviewed: July 2010

 

 

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