What Factors Can Public Health Actors Consider to Facilitate the Borrowing of a Public Policy?

When public health actors propose policy options to policy makers to address public health problems, they may include in their proposals policies that have proven effective in other jurisdictions - in other words, they may recommend borrowing these policies.

This document:

• presents a list of factors that facilitate the borrowing of public policies;
   
• describes how public health actors can mobilize these factors when borrowing is a relevant option.

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Supporting Public Health Human Resource Planning: A Survey of Canadian Universities’ Public Health Training Programs

This publication aims to inform ongoing discussions on public health workforce planning and capacity building in Canada. You will find:

• recent data on programs and students enrolled in and graduating from university-based public health programs in Canada (2022 data collection conducted by the NCCHPP and the NCC for Methods and Tools);
   
• a recap of key findings from four previous data collections conducted since 2005 on these programs;
   
• an overview of pan-Canadian initiatives developed for public health workforce planning in Canada.

A summary version is also available for consultation.

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Health in All Policies Training: Inventory, Analysis, and Avenues for Reflection

This document provides an overview of existing training dedicated to the HiAP approach and proposes avenues for reflection to improve them, notably from a Canadian perspective. It will prove useful to public health or other sector actors interested by HiAP who want to improve their competencies and knowledge related to this approach.

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Towards a HiAP Approach for Canada’s Federal, Provincial and Territorial Jurisdictions?

This document aims to clarify what Health in All Policies (HiAP) is, and what can be expected from it in the Canadian policy context. HiAP is a policy instrument that articulates a comprehensive vision of health and supports coordinated intersectoral action to improve the social determinants of health. Federal, provincial, and territorial governments could adopt a HiAP policy framework to ensure that health is more systematically considered in all public policies under their respective jurisdictions, beyond health care.

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Intersectoral Action for Health and Equity in the Context of Budget Cuts

This document aims to inform public health actors and others interested in the challenges, opportunities, and strategies to be considered when trying to implement or maintain intersectoral activities in the context of budget cuts.

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Developing a Canadian Network for Health in All Policies: Consultations with Actors from Canada and Abroad

This report presents the results of a consultation with a group of public health actors on the need for a Canadian Health in All Policies network in Canada. Results from this consultation will help in better understanding public health actors’ needs in implementing Health in All Policies approaches in different jurisdictions in Canada and form the basis for the conception and launch of the Canadian Network for Health in All Policies (CNHiAP).

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New Publication

• Climate Change, Population Health, and Health Equity: Public Health Strategies and Health and Health Equity Benefits of Five Local Climate Solutions
  
  Three Canadian public health associations just released this report encouraging the integration of population health and health equity considerations into climate change mitigation strategies in communities across the country.

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• Consultation: A vision for public health assessment for Canada’s future
  
  The Public Health Agency of Canada is leading Vision 2030, an initiative to develop a vision for what public health assessment in Canada should look like by 2030. The Agency wishes to have your opinion to make sure that this vision is informed by diverse perspectives from across Canada.

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