The Latest Policy and Program Developments

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The resources below are full of fresh ideas and shared interdisciplinary knowledge about creating effective health policies. They draw on some of the best work being done in Canada and the United States.

Healthy People 2010 ToolKit
The Healthy People Toolkit, produced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, provides guidance, technical tools and resources promoting successful, state-specific Healthy People 2010 plans. It is also useful for other communities embarking on similar health plans.

Population Health, Sustainable Development and Policy Futures
This 1999 discussion paper by Michael Hayes and Sholom Glouberman examines changing ideas on and links between sustainable development and population health. It also looks at the possible pitfalls and rewards of integrating them into health policy. The authors conclude that both frameworks are consistent and offer new approaches to health policy, but that they demand policies that consider the long-term as well as the short-term.

Tools of Change: Proven Methods for Promoting Health and Environmental Citizenship
This Web site, founded on the principles of community-based social marketing, offers tools, case studies, and a planning guide for helping people improve their health and that of the environment. It will help you integrate the best practices of programs that have successfully changed people's behaviour.

The Canadian Handbook on Health Impact Assessment
This handbook helps health professionals who are inexperienced in environmental impact assessment (EIA) to provide health advice to an EIA process. Conversely, it also helps EIA practitioners, project proponents, and government, non-government and academic representatives who are not health experts familiarize themselves with the methods and disciplines of health assessment.

ISUMA: Canadian Journal of Policy Research
ISUMA is a bilingual journal published by Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal on behalf of the federal government's Policy Research Secretariat. The journal focuses on issues and policy research that cut across disciplines and government departments. Its goals are to encourage multi-disciplinary, "horizontal" research and to inform experts, researchers and the public.

ACPH Hard at Work
The 2000-2001 Workplan for the Federal, Provincial, Territorial Advisory Committee on Population Health (ACPH) was approved by the Conference of Deputy Ministers of Health at its June 22-23, 2000, meeting. At that meeting, the Deputy Ministers developed policy advice on current and future population health priorities including public health, early child and youth development, tobacco control, HIV/AIDS, injection drug use and other directions towards health for all in Canada.

This fall, the ACPH will release a paper called Opportunities of Adolescence: The Health Sector Contribution, which will reinforce the importance of early childhood to healthy development later on. The paper also reinforces the need for investments that support healthy adolescent development.

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