A healthy public policy creates supportive environments
that enable people to lead healthy lives. Together, we can build
policies that make healthy choices possible and easier for citizens.
Here are Health Nexus's (formerly OPC) discussion
papers, reports and other documents advocating for healthy public
policies.
Presentation to
Subcommittee on Population Health Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology
Engaging citizens and civil society in creating population health and health equity
OPC's
brief to the Mental Health Commission of Canada
October 2007
,
30.3kB
Improving
Population Health: An Election Wish List
Article for OHPE
by Connie Clement, Executive Director, Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse,
27 September 2007
19th
IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion and Health Education,
10-15 June 2007,
Vancouver
Abstracts
of presentations by OPC staff
Primer
to Action – Social Determinants of Health: a resource for
health professionals, lay workers, volunteers and activists to
explore how the social determinants impact chronic disease.
Count
Me In - Final report
Inclusion: Societies That Foster Belonging Improve Health
,
540kB
Ontario
Health Promoters: Gains of Organizing/Risks of Professionalizing Commentary from the Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse
Fall 2006, ,
37.5kB
A
robust prevention 'system' will save Medicare for generations
to come - An OP-Ed article, November 20, 2006 ,
13.9kB
November
21 marks the 20th Anniversary of the signing of the Ottawa Charter
for Health Promotion
Health promotion as a means to strengthen
public health: Considerations for Ontario's 2006 public health
guideline review, November
2006
Discussion paper ,
109kB
Discussion
paper on Mental Health Promotion
by Bonnie Pape for The Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse,
October 2006
,
103kB
A
Framework to Integrate Social and Economic Determinants of Health
into the Ontario Public Health Mandate
Executive
summary | Full
report
The
Case for Prevention : Moving Upstream to improve health for all
Ontarians ,
3MB
Report launched at the Moving
Upstream Conference, 21-22 February 2006
Count
Us In - Report ,
399kB
(Also see, Backgrounder ,
303kB )
