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This third issue of Projects Plus provides brief updates on some of the many collaborative activities in Atlantic Canada to promote wellness and reduce chronic disease. In this final stretch of the Prevention and Promotion Contribution Program, we asked project sponsors to share their recent accomplishments as well as their efforts to ensure that the work continues after their project ends. But first, here is an update on national efforts to achieve sustainability of the Canadian Diabetes Strategy:

A Blueprint for Action for the National Diabetes Strategy

With the end of Health Canada's current Canadian Diabetes Strategy (CDS) 1999-2004 in sight, plans for continued collaborative action on diabetes are taking shape. Health Canada recently organized and supported the second National Diabetes Symposium, A National Diabetes Strategy: Time for Action. The symposium, which was held in Winnipeg in May 2003, provided stakeholders with an opportunity in which to review and provide comments on the Draft Blueprint for Action for the National Diabetes Strategy. This collaborative initiative will build on accomplishments made within and outside of the CDS.

The Draft Blueprint for Action arose out of the first national symposium on diabetes, held in 2001, where stakeholders from across the country made recommendations for coordinated action in prevention, care, education, research, and surveillance. As a follow-up to the event, the Coordinating Committee for the National Diabetes Strategy was formed, with representatives from federal, provincial, and territorial governments; national Aboriginal organizations; and key national non-government organizations.

The proposed National Diabetes Strategy is intended to provide an integrated, comprehensive, mutli-sectoral, collaborative, and sustainable approach to preventing and controlling diabetes in Canada.

This committee produced the Draft Blueprint for Action by establishing working groups to revise the recommendations made at the first national symposium. The proposed National Diabetes Strategy is intended to provide an integrated, comprehensive, multi-sectoral, collaborative, and sustainable approach to preventing and controlling diabetes in Canada. The final Blueprint for Action will be released sometime next winter, and the symposium proceedings will soon be available on-line at www.healthcanada.ca/diabetes.

Please note that this document was published by Health Canada prior to the announcement of the establishment of the Public Health Agency of Canada on September 24, 2004. Any reference to Health Canada should be assumed to be to the Public Health Agency of Canada.

 

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