Disposition of 2005 Resolutions
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2012-11-22
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Final disposition of resolutions submitted for consideration at the 2005 alPHa AGM
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A05-1 - Access to Contraception
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2012-10-19
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THAT the alPHa Board of Directors advocate to the National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities (NAPRA) and to the Ontario College of Pharmacists for a change in status of Plan B (tm) to an off-schedule medication available for sale at any retail outlet; AND FURTHER THAT the alPHa Board write to the Canadian Pharmacist Association requesting that the current screening interventions for Plan B (tm) be revised to decrease unreasonable barriers to access the medication and that an information sheet for distribution with purchase of the product be developed and used in the interim.
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A05-2 - Mandatory Influenza Immunization HCW
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2012-10-24
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WHEREAS such refusals of voluntary immunization often originate from lack of awareness about the demonstrated effectiveness and safety of the vaccine; NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that alPHa urge the Minister of Health and Long-term Care in consultation with the CMOH and PIDAC to introduce legislation to require mandatory annual vaccination against influenza for all health care workers and other service providers in facilities and community settings, who, through their activities, are potentially capable of transmitting influenza to those at high risk for influenza complications, with allowances for exemptions based on the most current research on contraindications and precautions as reported from time to time by the NACI.
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A05-3 - Health Care Facilities Evacuation Plan
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2012-10-24
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NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT alPHa urges the Government of Ontario to develop and/or amend legislation such that all HCFs, including long-term care homes, are required to have written evacuation plans that include as a minimum the isolation, evacuation, transportation, relocation of residents/patients to a collection centre or other facility and details on their continuity of care; and AND FURTHER THAT such legislation also require HCFs to practice and evaluate their evacuation plans on a regular basis; and AND FURTHER THAT the Government of Ontario consults widely with EMS providers, hospitals, long-term care homes, municipalities and other key stakeholders to implement such legislation; and AND FURTHER THAT the Premier of Ontario, Ministers of Community Safety and Correctional Services, Health and Long-Term Care and Municipal Affairs and Housing, the Chief Medical Officer of Health, Commissioner of Emergency Management, Fire Marshall, AMEMSO and AMO are so advised.
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A05-4 - Health As A Public Program
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2012-10-24
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NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Association of Local Public Health Agencies (alPHa) request that the Mandatory Health Programs and Services Guidelines be revised to include the Determinants of Health as a recognized health program and service area and planning framework for all Ontario boards of health; AND FURTHER THAT alPHa request Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health to appoint an expert committee with intersectoral membership and strong public health representation to develop evidence-based goals, objectives, requirements, standards and evaluation framework, as well as a timely implementation strategy for this new Mandatory Program; AND FURTHER THAT alPHa requests that the determinants of health be incorporated into the scope and function of the new Health Protection and Promotion Agency
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A05-5 - Access To Dental Care
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2012-10-24
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NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Association of Local Public Health Agencies (alPHa) supports the action of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and calls on the Government of Canada, in consultation with Provincial, Territorial and Local Governments, to develop a comprehensive National Oral Health Strategy that would have, as its goal, providing universal access of both preventive and treatment services to all Canadians.
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A05-6 - Expert Panel On Sound Sorb
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2012-10-24
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NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT aIPHa urges the Government of Ontario to act immediately to implement all the recommendations of its Experts Panel on Sound-Sorb as soon as possible; and AND FURTHER THAT aIPHa urges the Government of Ontario to act immediately to regulate and control the storage of paper fibre biosolids (PFBs), the manufacturing and land application of other related PFB products as soon as possible; and AND FURTHER THAT the Premier of Ontario, Ministers of the Environment and Health and Long-Term Care and Chief Medical Officer of Health are so advised.
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A05-7 - Haines Meat Inspection Review
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2012-10-24
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NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT aIPHa urges the Government of Ontario and the Chief Medical Officer of Health to act immediately to develop and implement a food safety action plan to advance Justice Haines' recommendations that pertain to boards of health and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care; and AND FURTHER THAT the Premier of Ontario, Ministers of Agriculture and Food and Health and Long-Term Care and Chief Medical Officer of Health are so advised.
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A05-8 - Healthy Weights
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2012-11-22
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NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT aIPHa urges the Premier of Ontario, the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, the Minister of Health Promotion and the Chief Medical Officer of Health to act immediately to develop specific, objectives, goals and targets based on the recommendations of Healthy Weights, Healthy Lives and to implement a healthy weights action plan to meet them, ideally as an integral component of a pan-Canadian healthy living strategy, to advance the recommendations of "Healthy Weights, Healthy Lives"; AND FURTHER THAT the MOHLTC, PHD provide funding to the local PHU to address the health problem to the same level as it provides to tobacco control
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A05-10 - SARS Commission
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2012-10-24
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NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT aIPHa urges the Government of Ontario to act immediately to establish a consultation process to review and advance the recommendations of the second interim report of the SARS Commission that are not being addressed by Operation Health Protection; and AND FURTHER THAT the Premier of Ontario, Attorney General of Ontario, Ministers of Health and Long-Term Care, Chief Medical Officer of Health and SARS Commission are so advised.
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A05-11 - Stormwater Management Ponds
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2012-10-24
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NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT aIPHa urges the Government of Ontario to act immediately to update its Stormwater Management Planning and Design Manual and/or related materials such that the prevention of the breeding of West-Nile virus vector mosquitoes in wet stormwater management ponds is adequately addressed and continually updated as required; and AND FURTHER THAT the updated Manual and/or related materials is widely disseminated to boards of health, land developers, municipalities and other key stakeholders; and AND FURTHER THAT the Premier of Ontario, Ministers of the Environment, Health and Long-Term Care and Municipal Affairs and Housing and the Chief Medical Officer of Health are so advised.
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A05-12 - Type 1 Diabetes in Children
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2012-11-22
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NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT aIPHa urges the Governments of Canada and Ontario to act immediately and in concert to develop and implement, as soon as possible, a long-term action plan that significantly increases resources available for the epidemiology, education, care and treatment related to type 1 diabetes in children;
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A05-13 - Window Safety Devices
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2012-10-24
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NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT aIPHa urges the Government of Ontario to act immediately to amend the Ontario Building Code to require the installation of an acceptable window safety devices in multiple-dwellings such that in every multiple-dwelling, every window, any part of which is capable of being opened, that does not lead to a balcony, that is located two metres or more above the finished grade of land upon which it faces, and is not otherwise equipped to prevent falls shall be equipped with a safety device to prevent an opening in any part of the window greater than 100 millimetres; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the Premier of Ontario, the Chief Medical Officer of Health and the Ministers of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Health Promotion, and Health and Long-Term Care are so advised.
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A05-14 - Community Pharmacies & Public Health Emer
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2012-10-24
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NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT alPHa/COMOH urges the Government of Ontario to immediately initiate discussions/negotiations with representatives of chain and independent community pharmacies regarding the provision of emergency management support services during provincial public health emergencies; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the Premier of Ontario, Ministers of Community Safety and Correctional Services and Health and Long-Term Care, Commissioner of Emergency Management, Chief Medical Officer of Health and Canadian Association of Chain Drug Stores are so advised.
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A05-15 - Pastyrization Of Fruit Juices & Ciders
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2012-10-24
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NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT The Association of Local Public Health Agencies strongly urge the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to amend the Food Premises Regulation to prohibit the sale and distribution of unpasteurized fruit juice and cider products that have been historically linked to outbreaks of food-borne illness. AND FURTHER THAT Health Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs are so advised.
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A05-16 - Local Funds Of Public Health Agencies
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2012-10-24
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NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Association of Local Public Health Agencies (alPHa) petition the federal and provincial governments to ensure that municipalities have additional means of revenue generation to ensure the availability of resources adequate to meet local public health needs
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A05-17 - Board Of Health 2006 Budgets
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2012-10-24
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NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That alPHa urge that its member Medical Officers of Health and Boards of Health to recommend and approve 2006 health unit budgets that ensure significant and sufficient growth in public health capacity across the province AND FURTHER That alPHa urge the Province of Ontario keep its promise to fully cost share the enhanced 2006 budgets as approved by local boards AND FURTHER That the Province of Ontario ensure that significant and sufficient resources are made available in the 2006 and 2007 budgets to respond to the recommendations that will be made in the Capacity Review Committee, Agency Implementation Task Force and SARS Commission (Justice Campbell) final reports in order to encourage growth in capacity of the Ontario public health system. AND FURTHER That alPHa urge the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care’s Public Health Division to increase its oversight of local performance measurement to ensure that all legally required public health services ar
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A05-18 - Adequete Nutrition For OW &ODSP
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2012-10-24
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NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Government of Ontario be further urged to review the adequacy of Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program rates from a health perspective and that allowances for basic needs and shelter be based on actual current representative costs; AND FURTHER THAT the Government of Ontario be urged to review the current minimum wage from a health perspective and establish a living wage for all Ontario workers; AND FURTHER THAT the Premier of Ontario, the Ministers of Community and Social Services, Health and Long-Term Care, and Health Promotion and the Chief Medical Officer of Health are so advised.
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A05-19 - Tax Relief For Families Living In Poverty
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2012-10-24
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NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT alPHa send an emergency communication to the Prime Minister of Canada and the leaders of the opposition urging that any tax changes contemplated include, as a first priority, a significant, non-refundable tax credit to be paid poor families with children.
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