Events
QC – Sustainable health, a vector of socio-economic progress
This international conference, which will take place in Quebec on December 3, 2024, aims to bring together stakeholders, municipal decision-makers, economic players, citizens and researchers, around a common vision of the profound impact of sustainable health on economic vitality of communities. Through inspiring presentations, knowledge sharing and thought-provoking discussions, the event will highlight the complex relationship between health and economic growth and pave the way for innovative strategies with the well-being of communities as a priority. by contributing to their socio-economic progress.
News
QC – Report from the Director of Public Health: The health and development of Montreal children
Montreal’s regional public health director, Dr. Mylène Drouin, publishes a report on the health and development of Montreal children. This report pays particular attention to health inequalities between territories and focuses on the different living environments in which Montreal children grow up. By combining scientific data and field knowledge highlighted by a major tour of partners and families in Montreal, the approach behind this report made it possible to identify: priority issues for Montreal children and their families; recommendations and concrete courses of action; commitments of the DRSP of Montreal.
QC – Video series – How to promote public policies favorable to health and Health in all policies?
How can public health actors advance health-promoting public policies? How can they successfully implement Health in All Policies (HIP) initiatives? Discover a new series of video capsules from the National Collaborating Center for Public Policy and Health where the floor is given to public health practitioners from various organizations and regions of Canada. You will hear: arguments to encourage political decision-makers and municipalities to take an interest in the social determinants of health; concrete experiences of implementing policies inspired by the SdTP; advice to public health actors who wish to advance SdTP at the local level; instruments and strategies to improve public policy practices.
CAN – Food insecurity levels increased in 2022, after being relatively stable from 2017 to 2021
The prevalence of household food insecurity was slightly lower and stable during the years of the COVID-19 pandemic (8.5% in fall 2020 and 9.1% in 2021), then increased for reach 15.6% in 2022, according to Statistics Canada. Household food insecurity is an important determinant of health and a sensitive indicator of household financial situation. The study entitled “Trends associated with household food insecurity from the Canadian Community Health Survey, 2017 to 2022” takes stock of the level of food insecurity among Canadian households using most recent data available (until December 2022).
EUR – Industrial basins and population health: implementation of a first national study
Public Health France is setting up a national surveillance system to study and monitor the state of health of populations living near industrial basins, in relation to the activities and discharges emitted by these sites. The report published on October 21 aims to describe the industrial basins identified in France. The method for identifying industrial basins is presented, as well as the main characteristics of each basin (type of industries, activities and discharges from ICPE – Installations Classified for Environmental Protection) and the databases used.
INT – The 2024 Building H Index
The products we use every day influence our health. Too often these effects are overlooked, or even completely ignored. The 2024 Building H Index is a report that evaluates and ranks 76 popular consumer products, from Uber to Netflix and Trek to Ford, based on how they affect, for better or worse, the health of people. customers and users. The index is the result of the collective work of nearly 200 public health experts and is based on nearly 400 scientific sources.
Publications
QC – Equip yourself for equitable adaptation to climate change. A continuum to support reflection
This tool published by the CISSS du Bas-Saint-Laurent is aimed at public health practitioners who are engaged in an approach to adapting to climate change, as well as their partners. It is intended to be a tool for collective reflection with a view to integrating a bifocal lens on social inequalities in health and climate change into current or future actions, projects and policies, in order to avoid maladaptation and aim for a equitable adaptation.
QC – Evaluation of the project: support for better consideration of issues relating to social inequalities in health
This report published by the INSPQ concerns the evaluation of the project “Support for better consideration of issues relating to social inequalities in health”. This project aims to encourage the ministries and organizations associated with the Government Health Prevention Policy to act collectively on a set of factors to improve the state of health and the quality of life of the population of Quebec and, particularly, to reduce the social health inequalities (ISS).
CAN – Evidence-informed decision-making in public health in Canada: a qualitative exploration
The authors of this article, published in JBI Evidence Implementationconclude that public health organizations need time, resources and skills to adapt processes and fully integrate evidence-based decision-making into all aspects of public health decision-making.
CAN – Methods for evaluating intersectoral action partnerships to address social determinants of health: scoping review
Despite the complexity of evaluating intersectoral action partnerships, these evaluations are essential for measuring effects on health outcomes and social determinants of health, according to the authors of this article, published in Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada. Different evaluation models are available to program planners and evaluators who participate in intersectoral action initiatives.
USA – HHS Strategic Approach to Addressing Social Determinations of Health: Agency Program, Activity, and Policy Highlights
This report highlights key programs, activities, and policies implemented as part of the U.S. Department of Health’s strategic approach to addressing the social determinants of health. In particular, we discuss the first achievements to date and the impact of these initiatives on people’s lives.
EUR – Preserving nature to protect the health of populations
This number of Health in action sheds light on the multiple and complex links between nature and health (physical and mental) of individuals in light of scientific publications in recent years. An important chapter is devoted to urban renaturation policies, which require cooperation within local authorities between health and environment services, as well as medium-term planning tools.
INT – Implementing a Health in All Policies Approach in Australia
This document published by the University of Melbourne presents elements of the Health in All Policies approach in Australia and recommendations on how to remove barriers to its implementation. In particular, we recommend the creation of a central database that would contain all completed health impact assessments.
Health impact assessment and other resources
USA – Impact of Climate Change on Health and Drug Demand
This report published by the United States Department of Health seeks, on the one hand, to better understand the extent to which the burden of morbidity will increase within a sample of pathologies likely to be affected by climate change and, on the other hand, on the other hand, to model the future demand for drugs that will be used to treat these pathologies.
EUR – Health impact assessment of port-sourced air pollution in Barcelona
The authors of this article conclude that the port is a poorly studied source of pollution in Barcelona, which has strong repercussions on health. They argue that cities need local knowledge of health risk factors, their sources, attributable burdens and their distribution to define targeted policies.
INT – Development and validation of the Environmental Health Literacy Index: a new tool to assess the environmental health literacy among university students
Environmental health literacy is a fairly new concept that applies health literacy skills to environmental issues. The authors of this article, published inEuropean Journal of Public Healthpresent a new index to measure the degree of environmental health literacy among university students.
