Funding Programs

Canadian Diabetes Strategy

To help curb the growth of type 2 diabetes across the country, the federal government made a commitment in 1999 to support the Canadian Diabetes Strategy (CDS). The Integrated Strategy on Healthy Living and Chronic Disease, launched in 2005, includes six strategic elements of the federal government’s renewed commitment to the Canadian Diabetes Strategy. The Community-Based Program is one of these six elements. The program was designed to support projects that undertake the following activities:

• Planning, implementation and evaluation of interventions using evidence to address multiple risk factors among high risk populations within various social, economic and physical environments
• Facilitation and expansion of links among health practitioners, planners, researchers and policy-makers within and across organizations, sectors and jurisdictions to better align strategic directions, address diabetes priorities, enhance surveillance and knowledge uptake and exchange best practices
• Collaboration to integrate systems of prevention, detection and management of diabetes
• Development of healthier public policies addressing prevention, early detection and management of diabetes.

Projects funded by the Diabetes Community Based Program of the Enhanced Canadian Diabetes Strategy are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

• Expanded capacity of health practitioners to apply best practices and clinical practice guidelines to better screen, educate and counsel
• Healthier public policies in organizations across sectors and jurisdictions addressing high-risk populations, early detection and management of diabetes
• Increased organizational capacity for surveillance and knowledge development through increased use of the National Diabetes Surveillance System and other surveillance and research products in policy, program, service and research development
• Increased knowledge among planners, researchers and policy-makers of: diabetes-related determinants, risk and protective factors, at-risk populations, effective interventions and promising community-based practices
• Increased awareness, knowledge and skills among individual Canadians to prevent diabetes and its complications
• Healthier behaviours among individual Canadians to prevent diabetes and its complications.

Canadian Diabetes Strategy projects in Atlantic Canada

Diabetes-related publications from PHAC Atlantic

Canadian Diabetes Strategy, national PHAC site

For further information, please contact Nicole Inamura, Program Consultant, at (902) 426-2265 or email: nicole_inamura@phac-aspc.gc.ca.