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H1N1

Updates


  • Canadian H1N1 Information Clearinghouse Fact Sheet
    On behalf of Debra Lynkowski, we are pleased to post the fact sheet about the Canadian H1N1 Information Clearinghouse. This initiative has been under development for the past month and came about as a result of inquiries for information on H1N1 from external sources. The Clearinghouse will support communication from PHAC and local authorities and redirect inquiries to these sources, where appropriate.

Health Promotion

  • Health Promotion 101 (HP-101) - a newly developed online course targeted at health professionals. It is free, and modular. Practitioners can go through each of the 9 sections sequentially at their own pace. It was developed collaborativelly among our 22 member organizations with funding from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. People come to work in health promotion through many and varied paths, and most report a need for additional professional development. This course will help people familiarize themselves with essential health promotion concepts and, in so doing, will help raise the profile of health promotion in Ontario.
  • Historical documents on Health Promotion, Public Health Agency of Canada website

Health Protection and Promotion Agency

  • Start Up - The Agency for Health Protection and Promotion in Ontario puts out a periodic e-newsletter to share their progress report to the field. You can view the newsletter on the Agency's website, or to receive Start Up in your inbox, send your request to subscribe [at] oahpp.ca specifying your name, title and organization.

Health Status

  • Health Care Renewal in Canada: Measuring Up? - The Health Council of Canada’s first annual report (2007) to Canadians focused on access; in the second, we zeroed in on quality. This year, the Council believes it is time to examine our collective capacity to measure the performance of health care systems across the country and to suggest ways to strengthen transparency and accountability in health care.
  • Health Council of Canada - Monitors aspects of health and health care in Canada.

Healthforce Leadership Mentorship Project (HLMP)


Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Health Human Resources Strategy division:
  • HealthForceOntario website —
    The site is a human resources centre for health care professionals in Ontario or interested in Ontario. There is a marketing and recruitment element that deals with recruiting health care professionals to Ontario, a jobs page with information and postings for job seekers, information for internationally-trained health professionals, and information about government-funded programs for health care professionals.

Healthy Communities

  • 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.

  • Protecting Health: Air Quality and Land Use Compatibility [PDF] - This report begins by explaining why it is important, from a human health perspective, to consider air quality when deciding upon the compatibility of land uses when developing communities. It provides a summary of the approaches taken in other jurisdictions around the world to address land use compatibility. It then discusses the Province’s 1995 Guideline D-6, “Compatibility Between Industrial Facilities and Sensitive Land Uses” that was developed by the Ministry of the Environment as a guidance to municipal governments. It identifies the need for municipalities and/or the Province to more clearly address air quality during the land use planning process to protect sensitive populations from high volume traffic corridors and from other localized sources of air pollution. Peter Steer, Senior Policy Analyst, and Kim Perrotta, Senior Health and Environment Advisor. Halton Region Health Department, 2009.

Healthy Schools

Heart Health

  • The Heart Health Resource Centre, a program of the OPHA, enhances the capacity of public health agencies and their community partners to implement comprehensive, multi-risk factor, community-based heart health programs.

 

 

last reviewed: October 2008

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