| Prevention
Then and Now |
OPC’s founding chair reflected upon where prevention
has traveled in the past 20 years, told stories and looked
at how we could ensure a greater social commitment to prevention.
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A graphic representation of the session by
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[Chronology of
events in PDF]
Session
summary
Malcolm Shookner, the founding president of
the Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse (OPC), provided a timeline
for prevention over the past 20 years. Linking the context
of prevention with various stages of OPC's development,
Malcolm referred to distinct phases:
 Sowing the Seeds
of Prevention (1977-1984)
Prevention - an
idea whose time has come (1985-1989)
Moving Upstream
(the 1990s)
Entering the New
Millenium (the 2000s)
What's Next?
How will we gain a greater social commitment
to our work on prevention, health promotion and healthy
communities in this new environment?
Minority government
in Ottawa means opposition parties will play a significant
role in federal budgets and policies
Canada Social Transfer
as focal point for debate on public policies to support
social programs and the social determinants of health; Canadian
Council for Social Development leading the advocacy
Growing evidence
of the links between social inequality and "health
for all" (as per WHO)
National Collaborating
Centre on Social Determinants of Health (PHAC) can provide
evidence for policy and program development
Canadian Index
of Well-Being being established by the Atkinson Foundation,
with Roy Romanow as spokesman, to provide a way of measuring
how we are doing as a society
OPC has a 20 year track record of social innovation,
leadership, and resource development for prevention, health
promotion and healthy communities. How will it rise to meet
these new challenges at the dawn of the new millennium?
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