NCCHPP Electronic Bulletin - October 2009

Published October 16, 2009


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		The National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy (NCCHPP) seeks to increase the use of informed strategies by actors in the Canadian public health community in their efforts to promote healthy public policies. Contact us ____________________________________________________

		In the Spotlight this month – Deliberative Processes
		The Centre has an interest in deliberative processes as a promising way to create healthy public policies by bringing a diverse set of actors as well as evidence to the table, with more informed and context-rich decision-making as the result. We are developing a set of resources relating to deliberative processes in order to add them to the set of strategies and tools available to public health actors. This month we have published two new resources on the subject. Deliberative Processes – Fact Sheet This brief introduction to deliberative processes includes definitions, two main approaches to deliberation, as well as concrete examples of its application.	Deliberative Processes - Fact Sheet ( 285 K)

		Deliberative Processes – Inventory of Resources This inventory aims to set the stage for your own information search about deliberative processes by providing background information, some insights into which approaches are seen as more promising, plus links to a variety of resources available on the internet. Click here or on the image to download: Deliberative Processes - Inventory of Resources ( 193 K)
		_________________________________________________________ The Centre in Action
		Summer Institute 2009 – Healthy Public Policy presentations In July 2009, the NCCs held their annual Summer Institute at Mont-Sainte-Anne. During the event, the NCCHPP presented workshops on four major streams of its work: Health Impact Assessement, Non-profit Organizations and Public Policy, Deliberative Processes, and Public Policy Development Processes. Click here to read more or to download a presentation. Click here to see all of the presentations from the 2009 Summer Institute. .
		Public Health Ethics at the OPHA Annual Conference The Ontario Public Health Association Annual Conference will be held in Toronto from November 1 to 4, 2009. On Tuesday, November 3, the NCCHPP's Christopher McDougall will host a session on the use of ethical analysis in public health. This interactive session will be an opportunity to discuss and reflect on the utility of various fundamental ethical concepts in the evaluation of public health practices and policies. To find out more, please contact Christopher McDougall. Click here to read the conference program.
		____________________________________________________ Our new Publications in the Spotlight Comprehensive Policies to Reduce Poverty across Canada, by Province
		Given the links between poverty and health, reaffirmed recently by several key reports including the World Health Organization’s Commission on Social Determinants of Health (2008) report, it is broadly accepted that poverty reduction strategies have key implications for population health. They are in a sense the first healthy public policy.
		Here, the NCCHPP offers this synoptic table of comprehensive poverty reduction laws and strategies, by province, in Canada. In 2009, four Canadian provinces adopted or worked on comprehensive anti-poverty policies, joining both Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador with their existing broad-based policies in this area. This document offers a brief overview of provincial strategies, and provides links to policy documents and other resources so that the public health sector may stay abreast of these developments across different jurisdictions in Canada. .	Click here to download ( 315 K)
		. Quebec’s Law Against Poverty – Briefing notes Two briefing notes on the history and the implementation of Quebec's Anti-poverty strategy, the Act to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion - click here to read more.
		. Health Impact Assessment – Fact Sheet Part of our growing list of resources in HIA - click here to read more.
		____________________________________________________ Thank you for reading. As always, we would like to hear your comments on this and all of our work.