Collection of position papers and reports that includes those authored by alPHa and others that will be of particular interest to its members.
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Children Count: Healthy Living Module Toolkit
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2020-01-20
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January 10, 2020: The Children Count Pilot Study Project: Healthy Living Module Toolkit and full report has been finalized and distributed as a guide for school boards and health units to work together towards the development of robust questions addressing local child health needs. This work provides an effective model for capturing local data for child and youth health to inform planning, partnership and evaluation.
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alPHa Statement of Principles - Public Health
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2019-11-15
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November 15, 2019 alPHa Statement of Principles In preparation for the provincial consultations on public health modernization. These will be used as a foundation for its separate and formal submissions to the consultation process.
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Oral Health White Paper - OSDCP
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2019-07-19
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July 2019 Letter and Recommendations developed by a group of oral health experts representing Public Health Units, the Alliance for Healthier Communities, the Ontario Association of Public Health Dentistry and the Ontario Oral Health Alliance that provides recommendations for the implementation of the Ontario Seniors Dental Care Program (OSDCP).
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alPHa Position - Public Health Restructuring 2019
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2019-04-24
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April 24, 2019 position statement of the Association of Local Public Health Agencies that expresses concerns about the Government’s plans to restructure Ontario’s public health system and to make sudden changes to the provincial/municipal cost-sharing formula that funds local public health.
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ASPHIO Response - Edible Cannabis Consultation
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2019-02-20
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February 2019 feedback from the Association of Supervisors of Public Health Inspectors on the current federal consultation on the regulation of non-combustible cannabis products.
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PCPHN Report - Key Health Inequalities in Canada
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2018-05-28
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May 2018 report of the Pan-Canadian Public Health Network, the first pan-Canadian effort to document Canada’s health inequalities and describe differences in the health outcomes, daily living conditions and structural conditions that support health among various populations.
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Prevention Matters - OCDPA
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2018-05-22
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May 22 2018 - Report of the Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance: Prevention Matters: Why Ontario Needs a Chronic Disease Strategy.
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Smoke-Free Ontario - The Next Chapter
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2018-05-04
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May 3 2018 - The Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy.
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CMOH Annual Report 2016: Improving the Odds
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2018-03-02
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February 28 2018 - 2016 Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer of Health, Improving the Odds: Championing Health Equity in Ontario.
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COMOH Position - HIV Case Management
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2018-01-17
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April 19 2017 (updated January 17 2018) - Guidelines developed by the COMOH HIV Case Management Working Group for a public health approach to HIV case management to ensure that follow-up is undertaken to ensure that an individual with HIV receives appropriate counselling and medical care for their own health and to reduce the risk of transmission to others in the community.
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Final Report - Capacity Review Committee (2006)
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2018-01-11
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May 2006 final report of the Capacity Review Committee.
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alPHa Key Messages for 2018 Provincial Election
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2017-12-08
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Set of member policy priorities and key asks for 2018 provincial election
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Expert Panel on Public Health Report 2017
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2017-07-20
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July 20 2017 - Public Health within an Integrated Health System: Report of the Minister’s Expert Panel on Public Health, which provides advice on structural, organizational and governance changes for Ontario’s public health sector within a transformed health system.
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OPHA Alcohol Advocacy Package
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2017-07-07
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June 2017 package that includes a briefing note and sample advocacy pieces to respond to the Government of Ontario's continuing expansion of alcohol availability without having followed through on the announcement of a Provincial Alcohol Strategy in 2015.
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alPHa - OPHA HEWG PRS Consultation Response
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2017-07-05
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June 28 2017 alPHa - OPHA Health Equity Working Group submission to the federal Poverty Reduction Strategy consultation.
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OPHUCC - Public Health Approach to Cannabis
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2017-06-28
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August 29 2016 - Toward the Legalization, Regulation and Restriction of Access to Marijuana: Submission to Federal Task Force by the Ontario Public Health Unit Collaboration on Cannabis
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COMOH Position - Road Safety
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2018-11-29
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November 2016
Canada has had progressive reductions in road traffic collisions (RTCs) since the 1970s as a result of concerted efforts by both government and organizations outside of government. RTCs, however, remain a leading cause of unintentional injury and death for Canadian children, youth and young adults. Given the preventable nature of RTCs, a shift in Canada’s present road safety paradigm is required. A review of effective interventions in preventing RTC fatalities and injuries is presented, along with public health’s recommendations for action moving forward.
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ICES Report - Smoking, Alcohol, Diet and Activity
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2016-04-14
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April 2016: ICES Report - A $4.9 Billion Decrease in Health Care Expenditure:: The Ten-Year Impact of Improving Smoking, Alcohol, Diet and Physical Activity in Ontario
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Obesity in Canada
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2016-03-11
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March 2016 Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology.
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Rethink Your Drinking Campaign Survey Report
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2016-03-02
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In 2015, a survey was conducted with public health units in Ontario regarding the Rethink Your Drinking (RYD) Campaign. The purpose was to identify how public health units were using, promoting and adapting this campaign in their local area as well as determine the interest in adopting the RYD campaign as a province-wide public health-led initiative.
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Immunization 2020 Link
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2015-12-11
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December 2015 MOHLTC Report on modernizing Ontario’s Publicly Funded Immunization Program. " Immunization 2020 is a first-of-its-kind roadmap for Ontario that will help our government and our partners achieve a high performing, integrated immunization system.
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Pathways to Promoting Mental Health
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2015-11-20
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This report is the result of the survey of Ontario PHUs, which was conducted as a partnership between the Health Promotion Division of the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Health Promotion Resource Centre (HPRC). Participants were employees from Ontario PHUs working in or overseeing mental health–related activities.
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Health Unit Language Service Survey Report
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2015-11-13
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November 2015 report by the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit Department of Epidemiology, Planning, Evaluation, and Quality. On August 17, 2015 the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit (WECHU) invited all Ontario health units to complete an online survey to assess the ways in which client’s language needs are being addressed. This survey is part of a larger project that will seek to direct the development of a WECHU-wide language service plan. The language service plan will include an outline of the delivery and implementation of language services offered at the health unit along with the identification of priority languages.
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OSNPPH - Position Statement - Food Insecurity
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2016-01-13
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October 2015 OSNPPH Position Statement on Responses to Food Insecurity, which recommends income security as a solution to food insecurity. It emphasizes exploration of a Basic Income Guarantee as a simpler and transparent approach to social assistance
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Make No Little Plans
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2018-11-22
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2013 Public Health Sector Strategic Plan
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Basic Income Guarantee - Backgrounder
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2015-10-07
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August 2015 backgrounder was prepared to support resolutions on the issue of a basic income guarantee (BIG), being submitted to the Association of Local Public Health Agencies (alPHa) and the Ontario Public Health Association (OPHA).
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ODA Fluoride Book
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2015-09-10
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January 2015 Ontario Dental Association publication, Promoting Better Health in Your Community: The Essential Benefits of Water Fluoridation.
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Ontario Drug Policy Research Network - 2015 Report
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2016-03-21
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July 16 2015 (Revised March 2016) - The Ontario Drug Policy Research Network (ODPRN) conducted a cross-sectional analysis among individuals aged 15 and older to evaluate rates of opioid prescribing and opioid toxicity-related hospitalizations and emergency department visits, by county and age between 2006-2010 and 2011-2013. An interactive map displaying the opioid prescribing and toxicity-related hospital visit rates in Ontario by county, as outlined in the report can be found here: http://odprn.ca/opioid-prescribing-and-hospital-visits/
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alPHa-OPHA Position Statement - Health Equity Lens
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2015-07-06
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2015 alPHa - OPHA position statement on applying a health equity lens to all policy making related to the social determinants of health.
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APHU Assessment Report 2015
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2015-06-17
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June 16 2015 Board of Health for the District of Algoma Health Unit Assessment Report. Includes an executive summary and Ministry responses.
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RRFSS Newsletter May 2015
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2015-05-28
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May 2015 Newsletter of the Rapid Risk Factor Surveillance System, which outlines its benefits and how it is being used in over one-third of alPHa's member health units.
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NOSM - Position Paper - Alcohol & Harm Reduction
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2015-05-14
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March 2015 - Northern Ontario School of Medicine Government Affairs and Advocacy Committee Position Paper on Managed Alcohol Programs.
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SHIFT – Enhancing the Health of Ontarians Link
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2015-03-05
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SHIFT – Enhancing the Health of Ontarians: A Call to Action for Preconception Health Promotion and Care. Developed by the Ontario Public Health Association, February 25, 2015.
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Ontario Action Plan for Health Care 2015
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2015-02-02
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Feb 2 2015 - new iteration of Ontario's Action Plan for Health Care, entitled "Patients First".
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Healthy Rural Communities Toolkit
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2015-02-19
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2014 Healthy Rural Communities Toolkit was developed as a Locally-Driven Collaborative Project funded by Public Health Ontario. This tool kit identifies land use and development strategies that can help to enhance the rural built environment and contribute to positive quality of life and health outcomes. The tool kit brings a rural lens to issues that are often viewed from an urban perspective. Numerous examples and innovative practices from across the province are profiled. This tool kit recognizes many characteristics associated with rural communities including a low density population, a declining population in some areas, aging citizens, youth out-migration, rural land uses and an economy that is significantly different from that of urban Ontario.
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