Upcoming Webinar – Strategies for Public Health Organizations to Enhance Their Capacities to Act on Healthy Public Policies

What can public health actors do to increase their capacities to act on healthy public policies? In this webinar, we will explore strategies and tools public health organizations can implement to advance healthy public policies. By participating in this webinar, you will gain valuable insights based on the work of the NCCHPP and the concrete experiences of Peterborough Public Health and Saskatchewan Health Authority, helping you enhance your organization's ability to promote healthy public policies.

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Video Series – How Can We Promote Healthy Public Policies and Health in All Policies?

Discover our new series of video clips featuring public health practitioners from various organizations and regions across Canada! Listen to them share their concrete experiences in implementing policies inspired by the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach, offering advice on advancing HiAP at the local level, and presenting tools and strategies to improve public policy practices.

Here are the 3 first clips featuring Dr. Horacio Arruda, Assistant Deputy Minister at the General Direction of Public Health at the ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec.

Below, watch the first clip where Dr. Arruda answers the question, why should policy makers be interested in the social determinants of health?

Upcoming Webinar – How to Lead Intersectoral Collaborations for Health and Equity when Resources are Limited?

What needs to be considered when you want to establish or maintain intersectoral partnerships in the context of limited resources?

Join us for this webinar where we will present the results of a literature review on intersectoral actions for health and equity in the context of budgetary constraints. You will also hear enlightening reflections by a member of Vancouver Coastal Health's Healthy Public Policy Unit and by a professional from the Direction générale de santé publique du ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec.

By participating in this webinar, you will gain insight into the challenges, opportunities, and strategies to consider when navigating the context of limited resources.

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Municipal Action to Create Environments Conducive to Health and Quality of Life

Municipalities have the tools to make the built, natural, economic, social, cultural, and political environments conducive to health and quality of life. This document presents a systemic analysis framework, rooted in the municipal context of Quebec, which facilitates the examination of various strategies that municipalities can use. This document is intended for public health network stakeholders but may also interest those responsible for various municipal services and their local partners. This document was produced by the Institut national de santé publique du Québec and the NCCHPP funded its translation into English.

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Series of Publications from the Institut national de santé publique du Québec

As part of the Public Health Agency of Canada's Science in French Initiative, the Institut national de santé publique du Québec was able to translate various publications on current public health issues into English. The goal of this partnership is to promote the dissemination of scientific expertise to meet pan-Canadian needs. The NCCHPP is pleased to contribute to the efforts of promoting these resources. Here’s one publication from the series related to suicide prevention:

Preventing Suicide by Reducing Adverse Childhood Experiences and Their Consequences: Possible Courses of Action

Suicide prevention is a public health priority. In Canada and Québec, suicide is the second leading cause of death among young adults. Adverse childhood experiences (e.g. physical violence, sexual violence, exposure to domestic violence, parent with a mental health issues) significantly increase the risk of suicide throughout life. This knowledge synthesis represents a novel effort. It aims to understand how preventive and promotional interventions can reduce adverse childhood experiences and their consequences (including mental health issues), thereby contributing to suicide prevention.

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Indigenous Academic Lead at the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH)

The NCCIH located at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC), invites applications for the Indigenous Academic Lead, at the rank of Associate or Full Professor, with a proposed starting date of January 1, 2025.

The NCCAH, like the NCCHPP, is part of the network of six National Collaborating Centres for Public Health in Canada. The NCCIH’s mandate is to strengthen public health systems and advocate for health equity for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples in Canada through knowledge translation and exchange.

Applications will be accepted until November 7, 2024.

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Upcoming Event

• Evidence Synthesis Workshop
  Presented by the National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools.
  Wednesday, November 13, 2024, 9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. EST.
   

New Resource

• Publication – Let’s Talk: Determinants of health
  Published by the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health.
   

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