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23 avr 2010
Addressing Lifecourse Risks through Social Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges for the Community Sector
On December 8, 2009, the Policy Research Initiative (PRI) hosted a multi-sector roundtable discussion on the emerging opportunities and challenges facing the community sector as it helps meet the needs of Canadians, as well as its role in social innovation. This report summarizes the discussions of the event and sketches out possible follow-up activities for the PRI and "knowledge commons" to pursue in the context of the community sector stream of the social management of risk project.
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23 avr 2010
An Environmental Scan of Primary Care and Public Health
This series of environmental scans include information up to May 2009, related to primary care and public health in three Canadian provinces: Ontario, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia. The purpose of the environmental scans is to provide information about the provincial context of primary care and public health that may be contributing, either positively or negatively, towards integration and collaboration between these two health sectors. They also provide a broad overview of primary care and public health structures in each of the three provinces.
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23 avr 2010
Why Intelligent People Live Longer
Numerous studies find a positive relationship between cognitive ability, IQ as measured in childhood or youth, and subsequent survival. Explanations range from the idea that low ability is an indicator of adverse systemic events in early life to the idea that high cognitive functioning is required continuously to maintain health and
reduces threats to survival. Findings of this study suggest that cognitive functioning improves survival by promoting behaviours that boost health status, minimize exposure to known risks and optimize returns to health producing inputs, and that such behaviours are firmly in place by late adolescence.
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23 avr 2010
Fairer health: case studies on improving health for all
This guide showcases just a few of the many creative and innovative approaches across Victoria in Australia to tackling health inequalities. These approaches have been funded by a range of organisations - not all by the Victorian Government. Some programs reduce the disadvantage and discrimination that lead to ill-health and exclusion. Others promote health for all Victorians or focus on the quality, affordability and accessibility of services.
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23 avr 2010
Milestones in health promotion: Statements from global conferences
This compilation of consensus documents brings together Charters, Declarations, Statements and Recommendations from past Health Promotion conferences. With the statements from Ottawa in 1986 to Bangkok in 2005 under one cover, this publication is a ready and authoritative reference. It includes the Discussion Document on the Concept and Principles of Health Promotion, Copenhagen, 9-13 July 1984.
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