Population Health Mobilization: A Regional Strategy - June 1999

Appendix B: General Descriptions of Population Health Activities Underway in the Regions

• Internal changes to adopt Population Healthsuch as reorganization, change and transition work, realignment of portfolios and creation of new units.

• Analysis of past work using population health and the determinants of health as a framework.

• Knowledge development for staffthrough workshops, forums and think tanks.

• Opportunities for staff to think about population health, specifically: policy work, research, evidence, intersectoral collaboration and effective funding.

• Preparing to set population health prioritiesthrough environmental scanning and research about evidence.

• Public and professional educationof funded agencies, government partners, health professionals, communities, through a variety of forums and mechanisms.

• National consultations on population health.

• Consulting with partners about prioritiesand setting up working groups and committees with external partners to set priorities jointly.

• Building community capacityto address multiple determinants.

• Repositioning existing Health Canada programs to make them inter-sectoral, interdepartmental.

• Working with partners to develop collaborative initiatives on life stages, determinants of health

• Working on collaborative initiatives that are multi-sectoral, multi-determinant and multi-strategy, focusing on policy, decision-making, research and evidence and/or action.

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