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NCCAH International Gathering – Healthy Land, Healthy People
Maori peoples from New Zealand and Aboriginal participants from Canada gathered at a Squamish longhouse on traditional Coast Salish territory in Vancouver, B.C., for an NCCAH-hosted "Healthy Land, Healthy People" meeting Oct. 3-5, 2011.
Among the guests was Hine Tohu of New Zealand, a 'cultural guardian' helping to address the environmental collapse of Lake Omapere in her tribe's ancestral region in the northland -- using Maori approaches to solving problems that western science and political approaches alone could not. The story of the Maori-inspired collaborative restoration strategy with local landowners, community members and researchers is breaking new ground in New Zealand where a high incidence of poor water quality is related to commercial agriculture, deforestation, stock grazing, and, increasingly, climate change.
"We need to see that the well-being of Indigenous peoples centers on the critical health of water systems and ecosystems - and that Indigenous knowledge is key to how we go about effecting meaningful and urgent change," said Dr. Margo Greenwood, Academic Lead of the National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health. The NCCAH is supporting a wholistic 'ecohealth' approach to Indigenous well-being as an emerging priority that can link community, research and policy. Learn more. |
NCCAH International Gathering – Healthy Land, Healthy People
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Supporting the health of Aboriginal students in Canada's schools
The NCCAH will be contributing to upcoming international discussions on the role of schools as a life setting where education and health can work together to support optimal learning for students. The Centre is highlighting its document: A Framework for Indigenous School Health: Foundations in Cultural Principles at the 15th Annual Public Health Days of Quebec, held in partnership with the International Union for Health Promotion and Education. The Nov. 29 workshop will highlight Indigenous educational and health success, and build on international interest in the framework's wholistic approach to wellness that focuses on care for the whole child.
"The challenge facing health educators and practitioners today is one of decolonizing existing curricula and programs so that there is a cultural fit," said report author Shirley Tagalik. The Indigenous School Health framework uses an approach that can benefit not only Indigenous children, but all children, she said. Learn more. |
Supporting the health of Aboriginal students in Canada's schools
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New NCCAH Release: Traditional Aboriginal Diets and Health
A new NCCAH evidence review sheds light on chronic disease and the health benefits of traditional diets in Aboriginal communities. The report looks at benefits associated with diets based on local plant and animal resources, and the challenges of promoting traditional dietary practices. It notes, for instance, that a third of James Bay Cree people embrace hunting and trapping as a way of life, that food sources are often determined by poverty and remote locations, and that broad policy initiatives can help promote country food by offering hunter support programs. |
New NCCAH Release: Traditional Aboriginal Diets and Health
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NCCAH-supported Journal Articles
Several academic journal articles and book chapters supported or funded by the NCCAH have been published in 2010/2011, and are helping to inform and support ongoing NCCAH activities. They include:
•Beyond Borders and Boundaries: Addressing Indigenous Health Inequities in Canada through Theories of Social Determinants of Health and Intersectionality
In Health Inequities in Canada: Intersectional Frameworks and Practices. Edited by Olena Hankivsky, UBC Press 2011, 53-70. Authors Sarah de Leeuw and Margo Greenwood argue that understanding colonialism as a fundamental determinant of health, in conjunction with the other social determinants, can provide one means of explaining and understanding the state of Indigenous people's health in Canada today.
•Indigenous Youth Engagement in Canada's Health Care
In Pimatisiwin: A Journal of Aboriginal and Indigenous Community Health, 2011, 9 (1), 87-111. Authors Natasha Blanchet-Cohen, Zora McMillan and Margo Greenwood discuss findings from a study on Indigenous youth's perspectives on and engagement in health care. Their results highlight the value and implications of affirming Indigenous youth's role as determiners of their own health.
•Warming up to the Embodied Context of First Nations Child Health: A Critical Intervention into and Analysis of Health and Climate Change Research
In International Public Health Journal 2010, 2 (4), 477-485. Margot Parkes, Sarah de Leeuw, and Margo Greenwood analyze options that can help prevent climate change from exacerbating health inequities experienced by Aboriginal children in Canada.
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New staff at the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants (NCCDH)
The NCCDH celebrated the arrival of new staff from across Canada with an event hosted by St. Francis Xavier University on Thursday October 6th. The event highlighted the diverse experience of NCCDH staff, who share a passion for translating knowledge about health equity. The new staff team will draw from expertise in public health competencies, communities of practice, food security, chronic disease prevention, refugee and international health. They are looking ahead to launching an online learning network, hosting user forums in Iqaluit and St. John's, and synthesizing rapid reviews of relevant literature. To find out more about the NCCDH staff team, click here. |
New staff at the NCCDH
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Disinfectants and Sanitizers for Use on Food Contact Surfaces - revised
This document reviews the criteria for food-contact surface sanitizers and describes active ingredients that have been proven effective for disinfecting and sanitizing food contact surfaces. This document is intended for food safety inspectors and auditors who may review the types and usage of sanitizers in food premises. |
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Community Planning with a Health Equity Lens: Promising Directions and Strategies (UBC Bridge Program)
This document examines ways in which local community planning initiatives not only address health but can also make equity in health a priority. |
Community Planning with a Health Equity Lens: Promising Directions and Strategies (UBC Bridge Program)
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Nanotechnology: A Review of Exposure, Health Risks and Recent Regulatory Developments
Nanotechnology is an emerging science with broad applications and potential benefits, but it also carries many unknowns regarding its impact on human health. This review summarizes evidence for the potential toxic effects of engineered nanoparticles and identifies gaps and weaknesses in the current human exposure and health effects research. |
Nanotechnology: A Review of Exposure, Health Risks and Recent Regulatory Developments
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Air Quality and Community Health Impact of Animal Manure Management
Community health risks may result from poor local air quality related to manure management. Limited studies suggest respiratory and psychological health impacts on residents living in proximity to manure management operations. |
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Traffic Calming
Despite its advantages, motorized traffic has worrisome effects on determinants of health such as collisions, injuries and deaths, air quality, environmental noise and physical activity related to active transportation. Traffic calming offers a way to intervene on the built environment that has significant potential to mitigate these adverse effects and improve the health of exposed populations.
In the coming months, the NCCHPP will release different resources related to traffic calming. Click here to learn more.
If you wish to be informed of the release of NCCHPP's resources in traffic calming, click here to go to our subscriptions page, and then check the box for “Traffic Calming”.
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The NCCHPP Offers a Range of Workshops
The NCCHPP offers a series of presentations to public health actors working at the local and regional levels in Canada. These presentations, available online or on-site (when possible), aim to familiarize public health actors with healthy public policies by presenting different tools to better understand and navigate them.
This year's themes are:
Method for Synthesizing Knowledge about Public Policies
Health Impact Assessment
Public Policy: An Introduction for Public Health
Public Health Ethics
Communication and Public Health Actions
Wicked Problems and Deliberation
Problem Framing
Transportation Policies and Health Inequalities
Traffic Calming Strategies
Please click here to learn more, to view the available presentations, or to send us your requests. |
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Workshop - NCCHPP Method for synthesizing knowledge about public policies - JASP 2011
On November 30, 2011, the Centre's Florence Morestin and François-Pierre Gauvin, and the INSPQ's Maude Chapados, will lead a workshop at this year's JASP (Journées annuelles de santé publique - Annual Public Health Days).
It will be intended for public health professionals who are expected to produce knowledge syntheses to inform policy makers. They will present a rigorous four-step method for gathering and synthesizing knowledge that is relevant to informing public policy decision making.
To read more, click here.
To consult a detailed workshop description, click here. (On the JASP website, in French only.) |
Workshop - NCCHPP Method for synthesizing knowledge about public policies
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NCCID Request for Proposals
NCCID is pleased to extend a request for proposals for a comprehensive review of Canadian programs involved in the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the monitoring of antimicrobial use and recommendations to achieve optimal programs. Deadline Nov. 4, 2011. |
NCCID Request for Proposals
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New pandemic H1N1 evidence review
Read our latest pandemic H1N1 evidence review, “Non-Pharmaceutical Measures to Prevent Influenza Transmission: The Evidence for Individual Protective Measures”. The review summarizes the recent literature on several non-pharmaceutical interventions. |
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Purple Papers
These latest papers make up a two-part series that explores the association between solvent use and the increased susceptibility to HIV and other sexually transmitted and bloodborne infections (HIV/STBBIs).
• “Volatile Substances Misuse: Epidemiology in North America, and Association with HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted and Bloodborne Infections”
• “Susceptibility of Solvent Users to HIV and Hepatitis C” |
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Antibiotic Awareness Week – November 14-20, 2011
Mark your calendars! November 14-20 is Antibiotic Awareness Week, and NCCID again has the pleasure of partnering with organizations across Canada to promote the prudent use of antibiotics. Visit the AntibioticAwareness.ca website on Nov. 14, 15 and 17 when Canadian experts will discuss the latest information on antibiotic resistance and public health. The live webcasts will include 30-minute presentations in English and French. In Winnipeg, a local presentation will also be held at the University of Manitoba on Nov. 18, 2011 – Antibiotic Awareness Day. AMR resources for health-care professionals are available online. |
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Upcoming Conferences
Project Manager Kelly Bunzeluk will give poster and oral presentations on NCCID's One Health Approach to Addressing AMR at the Antimicrobial Stewardship in Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Conference. The conference is being held in Toronto Oct. 30 to Nov. 2.
NCCID will also be at the Saskatchewan Epidemiological Association conference in Regina on Nov. 9 and 10, where Kelly will feature a similar poster. Project Manager Eve Cheuk will give a presentation on “Strategies for Preventing and Mitigating Influenza in Canada through the One Health Approach” on Nov. 9. |
NCCID will give poster and oral presentations at two upcoming conferences.
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New webcast series on NCCMT website: Using evidence in decision making - a story from Peel Public Health
We spoke to Bev Bryant, manager of education and research at Peel Public Health in Brampton, Ontario, about some of the challenges and the rewards of evidence-informed decision making (EIDM). Those conversations are captured in a series of short videos now available on the NCCMT website.
Bev uses the story of a media campaign intended to promote breastfeeding to illustrate the ups and downs of EIDM. It's a story that she says "provides a good example of some of the angst and the difficult process of evidence-informed decision making."
While she discusses the hard work involved in EIPH, Bev also encourages organizations to consider the positive impact for staff. “There's a payoff for the employees … There's a tremendous amount of energy in the organization right now. And I think it's the result of many things but part of it is the work that we're investing in evidence-informed decision making.”
To watch the Peel Public Health webcasts, see Stories from the Field click here. The NCCMT is grateful to Bev and to Peel Public Health for sharing this story. NCCMT welcomes stories from other public health organizations who are working through the process of evidence informed public health. If you think your health unit's story could benefit others in the field, please consider sharing with us. We can help you to tell your story in a format that works for you. Contact NCCMT for more information. |
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We continue to enhance the Registry of Methods and Tools
Our literature search is done!
We conducted a comprehensive lit search of KT resources that are relevant to public health in January. We scanned six databases from 2006 to 2011. After removing duplicates, our search yielded 42,729 references! After screening those citations, we identified 105 new methods and tools to be included in the Registry.
Adding user stories
We are always happy when people and organizations share their experiences using the methods and tools they find in the Registry. Now, you can read their stories as well. This icon that appears beside the titles of some resources indicates that a user story is available. Click on the icon to find out how another organization used this method or tool. Perhaps it will work for you too.
What's in the Registry of Methods and Tools? Check it out, click here. |
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Introducing a revised, simplified Applicability and Transferability Tool: “It worked there. Will it work here?”
In response to feedback from users, NCCMT made some improvements to our popular Applicability and Transferability of Evidence (A&T) tool. The new tool, “It worked there. Will it work here?” is especially for those at the ADAPT stage of the seven step EIPH process (the wheel). The revised tool now includes two variations that walk through the issues and challenges of A starting an intervention or B stopping an existing program or intervention.
Check out both versions of the new tool here.
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Revised, simplified Applicability and Transferability Tool
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