| Health Impact Assessment (HIA) |
03-05-2012 |
| Citizen Participation in Health Impact Assessment: Overview of Issues |
This document examines the main arguments in favour of citizen participation as well as some of the obstacles and risks associated with citizen participation in HIA.
Published in May 2012. Description. Download  1.9 MB
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| Built Environment |
03-05-2012 |
| Urban Traffic Calming and Environmental Noise: Effects and Implications for Practice |
This document briefly presents the effects of traffic-calming interventions on traffic noise.
Published in May 2012. Description. Download 1 MB
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| Built Environment |
03-05-2012 |
| Urban Traffic Calming and Air Quality: Effects and Implications for Practice |
This document briefly presents the effects of traffic-calming interventions on air quality.
Published in May 2012. Description. Download 1.04 MB
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| Health Impact Assessment (HIA) |
04-04-2012 |
| Health Impact Assessment: Guides and Tools |
To facilitate the work of those searching for HIA guides or tools adapted to their needs, we have listed and classified the HIA guides and tools available on the internet. This document was originally published in June 2008, and was updated in 2011-2012.
Updated version published in April 2012. Description. Download  1.58 MB
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| Health Inequalities |
02-04-2012 |
| Developmental Health Knowledge as a Catalyst for Healthy Family Policies in Canada |
This briefing note, prepared by the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU), defines developmental health, discusses its social determinants, shows some key figures for Canada and proposes a healthy family policy framework to support health for all Canadians.
Published in April 2012. Description. Download 728 K
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| e-Bulletin |
28-03-2012 |
| NCCHPP e-Bulletin - March 2012 |
Published March 28, 2012.
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| Health Impact Assessment (HIA) |
20-02-2012 |
| 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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| Built Environment |
01-02-2012 |
| 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 3 MB
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| Not-for-profit Organizations |
27-01-2012 |
| 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 2.5 MB.
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| e-Bulletin |
18-01-2012 |
| NCCHPP e-Bulletin - January 2012 |
Published January 18, 2012.
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| Health Impact Assessment (HIA) |
19-12-2011 |
| 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 1.8 MB
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| Health Impact Assessment (HIA) |
19-12-2011 |
| 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 1.8 MB
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| e-Bulletin |
29-11-2011 |
| NCCHPP e-Bulletin - November 2011 |
Published November 29, 2011.
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| Built Environment |
28-11-2011 |
| 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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| Built Environment |
28-11-2011 |
| Glossary of Traffic-calming Measures |
This bilingual glossary describes and illustrates 28 traffic-calming measures.
Published in November 2011. Description. Download 5.3 MB
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| Built Environment |
28-11-2011 |
| 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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10-11-2011 |
| 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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| Built Environment |
03-11-2011 |
| 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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| Health Impact Assessment (HIA) |
28-10-2011 |
| HIA Implementation in Canada: HIA Pilot Project in Montérégie, Québec |
This document provides a brief account of an HIA pilot project undertaken at the municipal level, in Québec's Montérégie region, and reports on the key findings that emerged from the process.
Published in October 2011. Description. Download 798 K
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| Integrated Governance |
28-10-2011 |
| Food Policy Councils |
This briefing note introduces the nature and role of food policy councils, and how they relate to the development of healthy public policies.
Published in October 2011. Description. Download 581 K
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