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Health Impact Assessment: Inventory of Resources
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.  Description.  Download  1.6 MB
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Urban Traffic Calming and Road Safety: Effects and Implications for Practice
This document briefly presents the effects of traffic-calming interventions on the number and severity of collisions.
Published in February 2012.  Description.  Download  1 MB
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The Use of Health Knowledge by Not-for-profit Organizations: Taking a Look at Their Policy-influencing Practices
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.  Description.  Download  549 K.
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NCCHPP e-Bulletin - January 2012
Published on January 18, 2012.
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Citizen Participation in Health Impact Assessment (HIA): An Overview of the Principal Arguments Supporting It
This fact sheet explores the four main arguments favouring citizen participation in HIA.
Published in December 2011.  Description.  Download   547 K
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Citizen Participation in Health Impact Assessment (HIA): An Overview of the Risks and Obstacles
This fact sheet explores five categories of factors that can explain the significant gap between the participatory rhetoric attached to HIA, and actual practices.
Published in December 2011.  Description.  Download    548 K
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NCCHPP e-Bulletin - November 2011
Published November 29, 2011.
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Urban Traffic Calming and Health: A Literature Review
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.  Description.  Download    5.5 MB
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Glossary of Traffic-calming Measures
This bilingual glossary describes and illustrates 28 traffic-calming measures.
Published in November 2011.  Description.  Download    1.28 MB
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Urban Traffic Calming: Summary Tables of Evaluative Studies
These tables constitute a synthesis, with comments, of the evaluations of traffic-calming interventions referred to in our literature review.
Published in November 2011.  Description.  Download     1.62 MB
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Structural Profile of Public Health in Canada: Methodology and Data Collection
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.  Description.  Download    707 Ko
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Traffic Calming: Political Dimensions
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.  Description.  Download    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.