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Healthy Lifestyle: Strengthening the Effectiveness of Lifestyle Approaches to Improve Health

Information/Resources/Links For Population Health WebsitePrepared For: Health Canada Partnerships & Marketing Division Health Promotion & Policy Branch Prepared By: Mollie Butler, RN, MPA

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Canadian Research Policy Networks (CPRN) Email: info@cprn.org

Site Description:

CPRN's mission is to create knowledge and lead public debate on social and economic issues important to the well-being of Canadians. This site  provides in-depth, innovative and integrated policy research, publications are accessible online.

Reports of Interest:

The full text of publications is available for free download in Adobe Acrobat PDF format through the publications heading on the site. Hard copies of reports can be purchased by contacting Renouf Books. Press Releases, Backgrounders, and Executive Summaries can be viewed through your web browser.

  • In Population Health in Canada: A Systematic Review brings together many sources of technical research, policy documents and other commentary on population health in an annotated, chronological bibliography.

  • Comparative Family Policy: Eight Countries' Stories describes how eight different countries developed their policies for children, in particular factors that led to the development of divergent strategies.

  • Securing the Social Union based on a series of roundtable discussions, this report identifies social union measures, what new institutions are required to carry out the functions of the social union and how to engage citizens.

  • An International Comparison of Policies and Outcomes for Young Children sheds light on policies for children and blazes the trail for future research.

  • Building Better Outcomes for Canada's Children is a discussion paper that maps out a new approach to supporting healthy child development in Canada, focusing on the markers that show children are healthy.

  • Values and Preferences for the "Best Policy Mix" for Canadian Children uses a wide range of data to paint a detailed picture of Canadians' values and preferences for child-support policies.

  • Final Report of the External Review Committee on Canadian Policy Research Networks Inc. is a comprehensive review that assesses all key elements of CPRN's work and influence.

  • The Society We Want is a tool kit designed to guide participants through in-depth discussions with the intent to create a more inclusive dialogue among Canadians.

  • E-network: electronic news service a registration form for CPRN's e-mail news service, which provides short updates of research projects and corporate activities, as well as notices of new publications, discussion papers, roundtable notes, etc.

  • Collaborative Partnership The CPRN has a unique partnership network model, including strong volunteer contributions and private and public sectors partners. Also see accountability below.

Conference Board of Canada (CBC)
Email: corpcomm@conferenceboard.ca

Site Description:

CBC assists members to anticipate and respond to the changing global economy by developing and exchanging knowledge about organizational strategies and practices, emerging economic and social trends and key public policy issues.

Reports of Interest:

Access to on-line reports is limited, but site does have a number of abstracts and press releases describing recent reports. As well, there is an archive section for backdated reports. Online notices, reports and abstracts include:

  • The 1999 Corporate Governance Conference (November 18, 1999) will explore the foundation upon which good governance is built and showcase some of the most innovative corporate leaders who are pioneering "next practices" in governance. 

  • INSIDEDGE an online newsletter that provides a sense of the range of expertise at the Board, including areas such as human resources, corporate finance or information management. 

  • Performance and Potential 1999 is the 4th annual analysis of Canada's productivity, industrial competitiveness, trade performance and quality of life. The report urges the development of knowledge and skills for the 21st Century. 

  • Next Practices in Global Governance published internationally, concerning significant trends, next practices and implementing best practices in good governance internationally (available in members' briefing format only)

  • Is Work Life Balance Still an Issue for Canadians and their Employers? is the initial report of a series and includes issues such as corporate culture, stress, eldercare and workforce solutions. 

  • Leadership Initiative The Conference Board has embarked on a leadership initiative using a multifaceted approach to delivering learning to executives. It draws on research indicating that leaders learn best in conversation with peers. 

  • Success In The Boardroom! 25 Years of Directorships Practices. When comparing board independence against its two closest competitors, the U.S. and the U.K., Canada, whose governance guidelines are the most rigorous and comprehensive in the world, eclipses them both. 

  • The Centre of Excellence for Women's Advancement will assist organizations to develop and implement practical solutions to remove barriers to women's full participation, growth and development in organizations. 

  • The Role of the Private Sector in Community Economic Development Key findings of case studies of corporate involvement in CED are reported. The CED strategy, scope of CED, how the private sector operates as a partner in CED and the challenges of these partnerships are described. 

  • Corporate Aboriginal Partnerships: The Business Case An informative presentation of the policies developed to clarify relationships between Canadian companies and Aboriginal communities. 

  • Challenge and Change: Embracing the Team Concept This report explores key issues related to teamwork and team-based work within the new business environment.

  • Employment Prospects for Aboriginal People provides examples of innovative cross-sectoral partnership models created to identify the skills gaps between industry demand and the number of Aboriginal people in the workplace. 

  • Corporate Social Responsibility: Taking Action to Meet The Challenge describes an inclusive business management practice that requires developing effective programs that balance business objectives with the needs of the community. 

Canadian Centre on Social Development (CCSD)
Email: council@ccsd.ca

Site Description:

The CCSD promotes better social and economic security for all Canadians. Its main product is information and its main activity is research, including income security, employment, poverty, child welfare, pensions and social policies.

Reports of Interest

Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
Email: lpoirier@cihi.ca

Site Description:

Mandate is to coordinate a comprehensive and integrated health information system, deliver knowledge and develop tools to advance health policies, improve the health of the population, strengthen the health system and assist health sector leaders in decision making.

Reports of Interest:

  • Health Report: The Vancouver Way Residents of the Vancouver area emerge as the nation's healthiest in the Maclean's Health Report's groundbreaking survey of 17 major communities. But the survey also finds alarming hot spots of major fatal diseases. 

  • "Roadmap to Health Information: Responding to Needs" produced jointly by CIHI, Statistics Canada and Health Canada outlines the current problems and proposes a future strategy to improve the quality, comprehensiveness and timeliness of health information. 

  • The Health Information Roadmap Project will develop a national Health Data Model and Info structure Framework (website coming soon) and begin in the Fall 1999.

  • INFOcus 2000, "Harmonizing Health Information Initiatives", (June 24-27, 2000) .  The intent of INFOcus is to bring a variety of stakeholders together to provide a comprehensive educational opportunity and facilitate the sharing of information and networking. 

  • Privacy and Confidentiality of Health Information at CIHI: Principles and policies for the protection of health information PDF file of these guidelines is available online. 

  • National Consensus Conference on Population Health Indicators Final Report is also available on line in a PDF file. 

  • Falls are Leading Cause of Injury Admissions and In-Hospital Deaths: CIHI Report provides national information that can be used to examine injury trends, plan and evaluate prevention programs, facilitate provincial and international comparisons and increase awareness of injury as a public health concern. 

Canada West Foundation (CWF)
Email: cwf@cwf.ca

Site Description:

CWF conducts research into the economic and social characteristics of the West and North, within a national and international context; educates individuals regarding the West's regional economic and social contributions to the Canadian Federation; and acts as a catalyst for informed debate.

Reports of Interest:

  • The Alternative Service Delivery Project (ASDP) was initiated to increase understanding of, and stimulate debate about, Canada's non-profit sector, its relations with the state, and its role in the delivery of social services. 

  • Comparative Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Study examines and compares provision and outcomes of programs for disease prevention and health promotion in a Canadian and an American jurisdiction. 

  • A Canada-United States Dialog on Best Practices in Public Health Conference was attended by health practitioners, public policy analysts, policy makers and health administrators. The conference was a starting point for Canadian and American dialogue. 

  • The Gambling in Canada Project is a three-year research initiative designed to provide a comprehensive picture of the issues surrounding gambling and gambling expansion in Canada. A main report will be available early in 2001. 

Vanier Institute of the Family (VIF)
Email: webmaster@vifamily.ca

Site Description:

Vanier Institute of the Family is a national, charitable organization dedicated to promoting the well-being of Canadian families. It is also an acknowledged leader on issues affecting Canadian families.

Reports of Interest:

  • Families & Health Newsletter (supported by Health Canada) is designed to increase community and media awareness about the factors that contribute to a person's overall health and well-being. The Newsletter is available online in PDF files. 

  • The Manager's Work-Family Toolkit Because each organization is unique this toolkit is designed for maximum flexibility and adaptability and can be used in whole or in part. 

  • Transition is an online, quarterly magazine for and about Canada's families and includes guest articles by North American experts on family life, and the trends and policies affecting Canadian families today. 

  • Canadian Family Trends Papers is a series of occasional papers authored by leading Canadian experts in the field of family studies. These Papers are also available online. 

Institute for Work and Health (IWF)
Email: kkrumme@iwh.on.ca

Site Description:

IWF's research has a strong focus on fundamental factors that contribute to work-related disability in the workplace with a view to both primary and secondary prevention. This research also contributes to workplace policy development.

Reports of Interest:

  • The DASH Outcome Measure User's Manual answers practical questions for clinicians and others and includes a 30-item self-completed questionnaire on physical function and symptoms disorders of the upper limb. 

  • At Work the IWF newsletter is available on line in PDF file. In the latest version the Institute announces the release of working papers on neck pain and the DASH manual. 

  • Medical Legal Aspects of Work Injuries Conference Leaders in workplace health from around the world gathered to compare European and North American approaches to the prevention, rehabilitation and compensation of workplace injuries 

Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM)
Email mdelinelle@fcm.ca

Site Description:

The Federation of Canadian Municipalities is the national voice of municipal governments, dedicated to improving the quality of life in all communities by promoting strong, effective and accountable government

Reports of Interest:

  • Quality of Life Infrastructure Program Proposal calls for enhanced community sustainability and well-being through strategic investment in environmental and social infrastructure. 

  • The FCM Quality of Life Reporting System project will develop a quality of life picture in Canadian communities and identify trends and issues that might escape traditional measures of public policy outcomes. Several reports will be released in 1999. 

  • Human Rights Municipal governments would like to see federal funding to assist provincial and municipal governments to build a coordinated national system, assuring that basic human rights to social protection is applied to social programs in an accountable manner.

  • Climate Protection Program: For a Better Quality of FCM's 20% Club has merged with the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives' Canadian Cities for Climate ProtectionT Campaign. This united effort is now aptly named "Partners for Climate Protection.

  • National Housing Policy Options Paper - a call for action in 1998, the FCM Big City Mayors Caucus passed a resolution declaring homelessness a national disaster and called on the federal government to take immediate action on this issue. 

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
 Email: cihr_info_icrs@hc-sc.gc.ca

Site Description:

CIHR will become fully operational on April 1, 2000 as a new integrative approach to health research. It will focus on understanding the underlying determinants of health and disease and link researchers across a broad spectrum of disciplines, sharing knowledge and working toward common goals.

Reports of Interest:

A number of Working Papers, which outlines specific area of focus are being developed. These papers serve as building blocks to create the final recommendations of the Interim Governance Council to the Minister of Health. 

  • Partnerships and Commercialization Working Paper 

  • Knowledge Management Working Paper 

Sustainable Development Research Institute (SDRI)
Email: sdri@sdri.ubc.ca

Site Description:

The mission of SDRI is to foster research on sustainable development issues that is policy relevant, interdisciplinary in nature and involves non-academic partners.

Reports of Interest:

There are a number of publications (i.e., books, reports, journal papers, research reports and conference proceedings) accessible through the publications heading on the site. These publications include:

  • Sustainable Development Series This series aims to influence key decision makers and non-governmental organizations by disseminating Canadian leading edge research and to educate the concerned public about the necessary process leading to sustainable development.

  • Communities, Development and Sustainability across Canada addresses the question what is sustainable development, bridging the gap between theory and praxis and bringing together academics, policy makers and community activists.

  • LFB QUEST is a PC-tool on the concept of sustainability that helps users create long term future scenarios of the region by making policy choices and seeing the environmental, social and economic consequences of their decisions.

  • Linking Indicators and Modelling in the Context of QUEST discusses how the relationship between indicators, models and users is being approached in the development of QUEST (forthcoming).

  • UBC Sustainable Development Policy As part of the program for greening the Campus, SDRI was represented on a university wide committee responsible for putting forward a university policy on sustainable development. A copy of the policy can be found online. 

  • Gender and Sustainability provides samples of annotated bibliography available on the site. 

  • Creating Common Unity Models of Self Empowerment 50 Award Winning Communities is a rich resource of information on community empowerment processes drawn from 55 case studies.

  • The Georgian Basin Research Project addresses a world-wide dilemma which is central to the future of human societies: how can we reconcile ecological limits with increasing human welfare?  

Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF)
Email: Webmaster@chsrf.ca Site

Description:

CHSRF's mission is to sponsor and promote applied health systems research, to enhance its quality and relevance, and to facilitate its use in evidence-based decision making by policy makers and health system managers.

Reports of Interest:

Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Government
Email: Info@mail.gov.nf.ca

Site Description:

The vision for Newfoundland and Labrador is of a healthy, educated, distinctive, self-reliant and prosperous people living in vibrant, supportive communities within sustainable regions. [Note this vision is in the Strategic Plan (1998) but it is not incorporated throughout the website.]

Reports of Interest:

  • People, Partners and Prosperity (available in PDF file) is a framework for social action. The Plan identifies a community development process used to engage people, communities and regions in working with the Provincial Government to achieve social and economic prosperity.   

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Email: info@acdi-cida.gc.ca

Site Description:

CIDA is the lead player in delivering Canada's official development assistance program. Its mission is to support sustainable development in order to reduce poverty and to contribute to a more secure, equitable and prosperous world.

Reports of Interest:

There are a number of CIDA's policies papers online, including: Meeting Basic Human Needs; Poverty Reduction; Women in Development and Gender Equity; Environmental Sustainability and Private Sector Development.  The first annual Joint Meeting between CIDA and its Partners of the Voluntary and Private Sectors focused on international co-operation issues and took place in Ottawa on November 16-18, 1999. 

  • Canada in the World is Canada's foreign policy statement. 

  • Memorandum of Understanding Between the CIDA and the World Bank provides a framework within which collaborative activities and projects will be undertaken, and specific joint program areas elaborated in respect to the Global Knowledge Partnership.

  • Global Knowledge Partnership is a collaborative partnership that explores how information technology affects economic and social development, and how knowledge can more effectively support the development process.

  • The Development Express is intended to facilitate learning by providing reader access to consolidated information from significant works on critical topics and issues related to international development. 

  • Virtual Library on International Development A collection of links to international development resources on the Internet. 

  • CIDA Approach to Public Engagement Through Partners is a paper outlining an ongoing approach that provides direction to CIDA's public engagement activities. It also encourages and supports CIDA's partners in the development and delivery of public engagement activities. 

  • CIDA'S Aboriginal Procurement Strategy (CAPS) a strategy created to promote Aboriginal business development through the federal government procurement process. 

Recommended Category and Rationale:

Policy Issues CIDA has a policy framework to support its mandate and six program priorities. Canada's Official Development Assistance (ODA) program concentrates resources on the following six priorities.

  1. Basic human needs: to support efforts to provide primary health care, basic education, family planning, nutrition, water and sanitation, and shelter. Canada will continue to respond to emergencies with humanitarian assistance.

  2. Women in development: to support the full participation of women as equal partners in the sustainable development of their societies.

  3. Infrastructure services: to help developing countries to deliver environmentally sound infrastructure services, with an emphasis on poorer groups and on capacity building.

  4. Human rights, democracy, good governance: to increase respect for human rights, including children's rights; to promote democracy and better governance; and to strengthen both civil society and the security of the individual.

  5. Private sector development: to promote sustained and equitable economic growth by supporting private sector development in developing countries.

  6. Environment: to help developing countries to protect their environment and to contribute to addressing global and regional environmental issues.

  • Implementing Determinants of Health CIDA's projects support respective developing countries' achievement of economic well-being, social development and environment sustainability and regeneration of the environment.

  • Partnership/Collaboration CIDA works in partnership with all elements of Canadian society, including the business community, non-governmental organizations , professional associations, co-operatives, educational institutions and international agencies. Developing countries are also essential partners.

  • Tools Urban Management Reference Toolboxes Information catalogues and Listservs provide links to urban resources around the globe, while toolboxes demonstrate how these resources can be put to use.

  • Tools CIDA calls gender analysis an indispensable tool for both understanding the local context, and promoting gender equality.

  • < >Continuous Learning</ > The Global Knowledge Partnership plans to hold a major international conference in Kuala Lumpur in March, 2000, sponsored by the Government of Malaysia.

  • International

United Kingdom - Department of Health/Our Healthier Nation
Email: dhmail@doh.gsi.gov.uk

Site Description:

The fundamental purpose of the National Health Service is to secure through the resources available the greatest possible improvement in the physical and mental health of the people of England.

Reports of Interest:

  • Our Healthier Nation, has two key aims: to improve the health of the population as a whole by increasing the length of people's lives and the number of years people spend free from illness and the health of the worst off in society and to narrow the health gap. 

  • Saving lives: Our Healthier Nation is an action plan to tackle poor health by to:improving the health of everyone, in particular the health of the worst off. 

  • The Health of the Nation: a policy assessed is an assessment of Our Healthier Nation Policy by independent researchers. The report offers a number of pointers for the New Public Health Strategy and a number of changes have been made, including implementation of strategies. 

  • Reducing Health Inequalities: an Action Report One of the key aims of the Government's health strategy for England is to improve the health of the worst off in society and to narrow the health gap.

  • Wired for Health - The Department of Health and the Department for Education and Employment are working together to develop this website to ensure that youth and their teachers are able to access relevant and appropriate health information. 

  • The NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) provides the NHS with important information on the effectiveness of treatments and the delivery and organisation of health care. 

  • The UK Cochrane Centre is part of an international network, the Cochrane Collaboration, committed to preparing, maintaining and disseminating systematic reviews of research on the effects of health care. 

  • A National Screening Committee (NSC) was established in July 1996 to focus on policy development and quality management. Previously, screening policy has been developed in a piecemeal and uncoordinated fashion. 

  • Effective Health Care is a bi-monthly bulletin for decision makers which examines the effectiveness of a variety of health care interventions. 

  • Effective Health Care Bulletins are based on a systematic review and synthesis of research on the clinical effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and acceptability of health service interventions. The Bulletins are subject to extensive and rigorous peer review. 

  • National Service Framework for Mental Health Modern Standards & Service Models (1999) spells out national standards for mental health, what they aim to achieve, how they should be developed and delivered and how to measure performance. 

Australian Health and Aged Care/Population Health Division
Email: webmaster@health.gov.au

Site Description:

The mission of the Australian Health Department is to lead the development and implementation of health and aged care services policy to achieve Government policy and directions.

Reports of Interest:

This site has numerous policy papers that are accessible in PDF files, including:

  • Investing For Growth is a federal government policy statement, that provides overall direction to actively promote higher levels of sustainable growth, rising living standards, and expanding opportunities for enterprises. 

  • Corporate Plan (1998-99) provides the Department of Health and Aged Care guidance and direction by which to revamp the Department. 

  • National Mental Health Strategy provides a blueprint for the future delivery of mental health services in Australia. National Mental Health Policy is a joint statement by the Australian Health Ministers of the Commonwealth, States and Territories intended to set a clear direction for the future development of mental health services within Australia. 

  • Environmental Health in Australia: towards a national strategy is being developed by the National Environmental Health Forum under the auspices of the National Public Health Partnership. 

  • The National Environmental Health Strategy outlines processes for improving the assessment, prevention, control and management of environmental health hazards. 

  • First Report on National Health Priority Areas (1996) explains national collaborative actions includes an overview of each priority area, describes relevant indicators, strategies, initiatives and interventions and presents a framework for monitoring health outcomes. 

  • National Health Priority Areas Report: Diabetes Mellitus report is part of a process that involves various levels of government and draws on advice from non-government sources, with the primary goal of reducing the incidence and impact of diabetes mellitus in Australia. 

  • National Public Health Partnership was established in late 1996 and is an ongoing multilateral mechanism between the Commonwealth and State and Territory Governments. The Partnership sets out the roles and responsibilities of the three levels of government in public health.  

  • The National Health Plan for Young Australians: an action plan to protect and promote the health of children and young people (1996) was endorsed by all the Australian Health Ministers in June 1995. This Plan needs to be read in conjunction with the Health of Young Australians. 

  • HealthInsite is a web-based facility, with navigational and search infrastructure, and links to other health information sources, providing Australians with the most current and reliable information from reputable leaders in the national and international health fields. 

World Bank
Email: pic@worldbank.org

Site Description:

The mission of the World Bank is to reduce poverty and improve living standards through sustainable growth and investment in people.

Reports of Interest:

This well organized site has as an extensive list of its developmental topics, ranging from agriculture to water. The site also has a number of well-developed comprehensive strategies linked to extensive data and information.

  • World Development Sources (WDS) is a web based text search and retrieval system which contains a collection of World Bank reports most of which are scanned and are available in imaged format. Has a multi-field search engine. 

  • Development Goals A OECD, United Nations, World Bank conference identified 6 social goals and 16 complementary indicators to be monitored by the development community as part of a new international development strategy. 

  • The 22nd edition of the World Development Report (WDR) analyzes how globalization and localization - the integration of the world economy and the increasing demand for local autonomy - could reshape the international landscape. 

  • Sharing Knowledge to Fight From a fairly closed organization a few years ago, the Bank has become a global development partner making it easier for people to find out who knows what and where the best expertise can be drawn upon, wherever it resides. 

  • The WDR 2000/2001 Poverty and Development will view poverty as a multidimensional phenomenon arising out of complex interactions between assets, markets and institutions. 

  • The Economic Growth Project of the World Bank's Research Group examines the relationship between national policies and economic growth. 

  • Transition reports on the latest economic, social and business developments in transition countries of Europe and Asia, and keeps track of related research, books, working papers, and conferences 

  • The World Bank Research Observer is intended for anyone who has a professional interest in development. Articles are reviewed by an editorial board drawn from the World Bank and the international community of economists. 

  • The World Bank Economic Review is the most widely read scholarly economic journal in the world. Readers are economists and other social scientists in government, business, international agencies, universities and research institutions 

  • The World Bank Policy and Research Bulletin is to inform the development community of the Bank's policy and research output. The Bulletin is not copyrighted, and may be reproduced with appropriate source acknowledgement. 

  • The Comprehensive Development Framework takes a holistic approach to development, highlighting the interdependence of all elements of development - social, structural, human, governance, environmental, economic, and financial. 

  • Why is Inequality Back on the Agenda? This paper investigates the reasons why inequality, and distribution more generally, have come to the fore in the development discourse at the turn of the century. 

  • Global Knowledge 97 is an ongoing global dialogue on how to harness knowledge and information as tools of sustainable and equitable development. 

World Health Organization
Email: pricea@who.ch

Site Description:

The objective of the WHO is the attainment by all people of the highest possible level of health.

Reports of Interest:

UNICEF
Email: netmaster@unicef.org

Site Description:

Established in 1946 to meet the needs of children in war-devastated Europe, UNICEF has become the focal point for non-partisan international concern for the well-being of children and women, especially in countries with very limited economic resources. It is also a partner in sustainable development.

Reports of Interest:

  • State of the World Children 1999 report calls for an expansion of the education revolution that is occurring throughout the world. This revolution has two standards -access to high quality learning and a child rights approach. 

  • Convention of the Right of the Child (CRC) is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history that was unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1989. There is a very rich source of information about the CRC on the website.  

  • UNICEF's 1999 International Children's Day (December 12) of Broadcasting this year is a very special for UNICEF and the world's children. It is the year in which to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rightsof the Child.

  • BFHI News the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative. is a UNICEF and WHO initiative to support and promote breastfeeding. 

  • The Silent Shout was adapted from a UNICEF co-produced film, warns of landmines, the most persistent and lethal weapons against children. About 115 million of these remain in the ground in 68 countries, waiting to explode. 

  • Role of Males: Report of the Consultation on the Role of Males and Fathers In Achieving Gender Equality brought together UNICEF, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, the International Food Policy Research Institute, the Population Council and researchers to review current knowledge of and country perspectives on the role of men in families. 

  • Intercountry Adoption reports includes broadly accepted international instruments that specify the conditions under which intercountry adoption should be undertaken if the rights and best interests of the children concerned are to be protected and fully respected. 

  • Ombudswork For Children discusses the history; patterns in the origin, development, mandate and status of the different types of ombudsman offices, the functions of ombudswork (in theory and practice) and essential characteristics. 

  • NetAid: Ending Extreme Poverty is the first-ever effort to use the Internet to promote development and end extreme poverty. NetAid is a historic partnership between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and corporate sponsors. 

  • A peace and security agenda for children statement was presented by UNICEF's Executive Director in February 1999. Executive Speechs are available under the information section 

  • Human rights for children and women reports on the renewed global commitment to the realization of human rights that is transforming the way governments protect their people. A summary is availble under the information section. 

  • A Guide for Monitoring and Evaluation outlines UNICEF monitoring and evaluation policies and procedures. 

  • My City is a CD-ROM interactive game judged to be most effective in combining entertainment with social responsibility. 

  • In the Global Village Game you'll role-play a global decision-maker and work with communities to help protect the rights of children. Each game module reflects successful strategies implemented in countries around the world. 

  • Voices of Youth was developed as part of UNICEF's 50th Anniversary celebration . It is an electronic discussion about the future as we face the 21st century. The are three different forums. 

Harvard University School of Public Health Population and Development Studies
Email: webexec@hsph.harvard.edu

Site Description:

Harvard School of Public Health is dedicated to advancing the public's health through learning, discovery and communication

The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies is a university-wide research center. The Center's primary aim is to advance understanding of world population and development issues.

Reports of Interest:

  • Walking Reduces Risk of Type 2 Diabetes This new study finds that both moderate forms of exercise, such as walking, as well as more vigorous forms of activity, prevent type 2 diabetes. 

  • Fruits and Vegetables May Reduce Risk of Stroke: Findings Support Recommended 5 Servings a Day (JAMA, October 1999). Researchers have found that eating five servings per day of fruits and vegetables is associated with a 30 percent lower risk of stroke in healthy men and women. 

  • World Health News is an online news digest from the Center for Health Communication at the Harvard School of Public Health. The site covers critical public health issues from around the world. 

  • Gender and Population Policies this program has a central focus on issues of gender equality and empowerment of women, and includes a perspective on ethics and women's movements. 

  • Health Equity Project looks at the theory and measurement of health equity, its determinants, and policy intervention. The initial task was to develop a philosophical framework to accommodate issues of equity in health care and health outcomes. 

  • The Burden of Disease Unit seeks to design, test and implement methodologies that will aid in the effective allocation of health resources. This Unit has collaboration projects with World Health Organization, World Bank and several countries and states. 

Date Modified: 2001-12-08

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