| Health Impact Assessment (HIA) |
20-02-2012 |
| Health Impact Assessment: Inventory of Resources |
The main focus of this inventory of HIA resources is the practice of HIA as related to the development of healthy public policy. This document was originally published in May 2009, and was updated in November 2011.
Updated version published in Febraury 2012. Description. Download  1.6 MB
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| Built Environment |
01-02-2012 |
| Urban Traffic Calming and Road Safety: Effects and Implications for Practice |
This document briefly presents the effects of traffic-calming interventions on the number and severity of collisions.
Published in February 2012. Description. Download  1 MB
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| Not-for-profit Organizations |
27-01-2012 |
| The Use of Health Knowledge by Not-for-profit Organizations: Taking a Look at Their Policy-influencing Practices |
This document examines the way in which five not-for-profit (NFP) organizations use health knowledge in their efforts to influence public policy related to population health.
Published in January 2012. Description. Download 549 K.
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| e-Bulletin |
18-01-2012 |
| NCCHPP e-Bulletin - January 2012 |
Published on January 18, 2012.
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| Health Impact Assessment (HIA) |
19-12-2011 |
| Citizen Participation in Health Impact Assessment (HIA): An Overview of the Principal Arguments Supporting It |
This fact sheet explores the four main arguments favouring citizen participation in HIA.
Published in December 2011. Description. Download 547 K
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| Health Impact Assessment (HIA) |
19-12-2011 |
| Citizen Participation in Health Impact Assessment (HIA): An Overview of the Risks and Obstacles |
This fact sheet explores five categories of factors that can explain the significant gap between the participatory rhetoric attached to HIA, and actual practices.
Published in December 2011. Description. Download 548 K
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| e-Bulletin |
29-11-2011 |
| NCCHPP e-Bulletin - November 2011 |
Published November 29, 2011.
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| Built Environment |
28-11-2011 |
| Urban Traffic Calming and Health: A Literature Review |
This literature review examines the effects of traffic calming in urban environments on four determinants of health (collisions, air quality, noise, and active transportation).
Published in November 2011. Description. Download 5.5 MB
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| Built Environment |
28-11-2011 |
| Glossary of Traffic-calming Measures |
This bilingual glossary describes and illustrates 28 traffic-calming measures.
Published in November 2011. Description. Download 1.28 MB
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| Built Environment |
28-11-2011 |
| Urban Traffic Calming: Summary Tables of Evaluative Studies |
These tables constitute a synthesis, with comments, of the evaluations of traffic-calming interventions referred to in our literature review.
Published in November 2011. Description. Download 1.62 MB
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10-11-2011 |
| Structural Profile of Public Health in Canada: Methodology and Data Collection |
This short document introduces the methodology underlying the Structural Profile and outlines the five essential public health functions around which it is organized.
Update published in November 2011. Description. Download 707 Ko
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| Built Environment |
03-11-2011 |
| Traffic Calming: Political Dimensions |
This document situates and describes the key policy differences between two general approaches to traffic-calming: the black-spots approach, and the area-wide approach.
Published in November 2011. Description. Download 897 K
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| Health Impact Assessment (HIA) |
28-10-2011 |
| HIA Implementation in Canada: HIA Pilot Project in Montérégie, Québec |
This document provides a brief account of an HIA pilot project undertaken at the municipal level, in Québec's Montérégie region, and reports on the key findings that emerged from the process.
Published in October 2011. Description. Download 256 K
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| Integrated Governance |
28-10-2011 |
| Food Policy Councils |
This briefing note introduces the nature and role of food policy councils, and how they relate to the development of healthy public policies.
Published in October 2011. Description. Download 581 K
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| Ethics |
29-09-2011 |
| From Theory to Practice: Working Towards Common Principles and Frameworks for Population and Public Health Ethics |
This document, produced by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Ethics Office, summarizes the proceedings from a Pre-conference workshop held during the CPHA Annual Conference 2011.
Published in September 2011. Description. Download 634 K
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| Built Environment |
27-09-2011 |
| Traffic Calming: An Equivocal Concept |
This briefing note is a historical introduction to three meanings of the concept of traffic calming.
Published in September 2011. Description. Download 601 K
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| Health Inequalities |
06-09-2011 |
| A Workshop on Inequalities Using the Escalators Metaphor - Presentation Kit |
The resources in this Presentation Kit, created by Vivian Labrie, are based on a metaphor of up and down escalators. When used to animate a workshop, they provide an opportunity for different actors to share their thoughts about structural and social determinants of inequalities. The kit includes: a facilitator's guide, a poster template and an introductory PowerPoint.
Published in September 2011. Description.
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| Not-for-profit Organizations |
26-07-2011 |
| Exemplary Partnerships for Low-threshold Services: The PHS Community Services Society and Vancouver Coastal Health |
This is the second in a series of documents examining different issues relating to partnerships between not-for-profits and public health sector.
Published in July 2011. Description. Download 259 K
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| e-Bulletin |
13-07-2011 |
| NCCHPP e-Bulletin - July 2011 |
Published July 13, 2011.
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