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The main focus of this inventory  of HIA resources is the practice of HIA as related to the development of healthy public policy. This document was originally published in May 2009, and was updated in November 2011.
Updated version published in Febraury 2012.  DescriptionDownload  1.6 MB
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The NCCHPP's Christopher McDougall led three workshops on ethics for public health inspectors in British Columbia. These training events were jointly organized by the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors (CIPHI) - BC Branch and the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (NCCEH).
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This document briefly presents the effects of traffic-calming interventions on the number and severity of collisions.
Published in February 2012.  DescriptionDownload  1 MB
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This document examines the way in which five not-for-profit (NFP) organizations use health knowledge in their efforts to influence public policy related to population health.
Published in January 2012.  DescriptionDownload  549 K.
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The Centre's Florence Morestin and François-Pierre Gauvin, in collaboration with Maude Chapados of the Institut national de santé publique du Québec, led a workshop during Québec's Journées Annuelles de Santé Publique (Annual Public Health Days) in Montréal on November 30, 2011. 
Published in January 2012.  DescriptionDownload    3.14 MB
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This fact sheet explores the four main arguments favouring citizen participation in HIA.
Published in December 2011.  DescriptionDownload   547 K
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Québec City will be hosting the 12th International Conference on HIA from August 29 to 31, 2012
December 2011.  Description
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This literature review examines the effects of traffic calming in urban environments on four determinants of health (collisions, air quality, noise, and active transportation).
Published in November 2011.  DescriptionDownload    5.5 MB
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This bilingual glossary describes and illustrates 28 traffic-calming measures.
Published in November 2011.  DescriptionDownload    1.28 MB
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These tables constitute a synthesis, with comments, of the evaluations of traffic-calming interventions referred to in our literature review.
Published in November 2011.  DescriptionDownload     1.62 MB
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The Centre's François Benoit and François Gagnon participated in the Building Healthy Communities: Bringing Health and Wellness to the Community Planning Table conference on November 29th and 30th 2011, in St. John's, NL.
November 2011.  Description.
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This short document introduces the methodology underlying the Structural Profile and outlines the five essential public health functions around which it is organized.
Update published in November 2011.  DescriptionDownload    707 Ko
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The Centre's Florence Morestin presented a framework for analyzing public policies as part of a workshop on public policies, organized and presented in collaboration with Maude Chapados of the Institut national de santé publique du Québec.
Published in November 2011.  DescriptionDownload   308 K
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This document situates and describes the key policy differences between two general approaches to traffic-calming: the black-spots approach, and the area-wide approach.
Published in November 2011.  DescriptionDownload    897 K
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The production of the NCCHPP website has been made possible through a financial contribution from the Public Health Agency of Canada.