Registry of Lobbyists
Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA)
Subject Matter: Retrospective: | Editorials in the Canadian Journal of Public Health address national and international health and social issues, while conferences provide a forum for both members and the public to debate major health topics. Through representation on external committees and task forces, the Association's views are presented and contribute to the decision-making process relevant to public health issues.Another of the Association's major activities is representation through lobbying and presentations to Parliamentary Committees. To keep the membership informed of CPHA's activities in the area of advocacy brief reports are included from time to time in issues of the CPHA Health Digest. CPHA continues to advocate for increased funding to repair the fractured infrastructure of public health in Canada. CPHA advocated for increased funding in capacity for emergency preparedness in light of the emerging communicable diseases such as SARS and West Nile Virus. CPHA continued its advocacy through letters to the Federal, Provincial and Territorial Ministers of Health prior to their joint conference in September of 2004 and through other correspondence to governments. In particular, CPHA advocated that public health investments should be devoted to a national public health strategy, the improvement of our public health infrastructure and a national public health human resources strategy. Through these investments an umbrella will be provided under which common risk factors and health determinants can be integrated.In a presentation to the Standing Committee on Finance (November 2004), CPHA outlined a series of budget recommendations aimed at supporting and improving the system to ensure that public health is recognized as the national priority it must be. CPHA also recommended full implementation of the Voluntary Sector Accord, that guides relationships between the voluntary sector and government. |
Subject Matter: Prospective: | Impact of Low literacy on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control (PHAC)CPHA is conducting an in-depth literature review and key informant interviews to better understand the impact of low health literacy on chronic disease prevention and control, the barriers to access, diagnosis and treatment, and best practices and techniques.Public Health Practice as it Relates to Chronic Disease (PHAC)CPHA is now finalizing this one year contract in which it will undertake a comprehensive environmental scan, needs assessment and gap analysis in order to monitor public health practices (current activities, resource allocation and capacity at local, provincial, national and international levels and existing structures, activities, capacity for information exchange), and make recommendations for the implementation of the Integrated Strategy on Healthy Living and Chronic Disease and on the interface between public health and primary care. Informing a Systematic Review of Public Health Practice and Community Programs with Regards to Healthy Living and Chronic Diseases (PHAC)CPHA is developing a framework to guide the first phase of sampling the environment of practice based on a series of key informant interviews.Cannabis-Impaired Driving: A Public Awareness Campaign (Health Canada)The focus of this public awareness campaign was a website with downloadable materials, a poster of pot-smoking pilots with the caption If it doesn't make sense here, why does it make sense when you drive?, and a media blitz. The success of the campaign surpassed all expectations. The Globe and Mail gave the campaign half page coverage and information about the campaign was carried in newspapers across the country as well as on CBC National TV news, and various radio shows. About 90,000 posters were distributed to high schools, driving schools, libraries, police, unions, and so on. The campaign was the topic of marijuana on-line forums. This quarter (January-March), the campaign is being taken to the Eastern Arctic in partnership with the National Aboriginal Health Organization. The focus will be on cannabis use and off-road driving. The website is being translated into a third language: Inuktitut.Smoking Cessation Resources for Women at Risk (Health Canada)This revised resource was successfully pilot tested in the fall in a group setting and is currently being tested by four health professionals in one-on-one settings. This resource will be launched at our May conference and available in both hard copy and on-line downloadable formats.Strengthening of Public Health Associations (2001-2006)- Flagship initiative: Strengthening of Public Health Associations (SOPHA) Program. Launched in 1985, this CIDA-funded program has contributed to the establishment and organizational capacity of public health associations in over 28 countries around the world. Includes Middle East and Central and Eastern Europe through other CIDA funding mechanisms.Reinforcing National Immunization Systems - Global- Canada's International Immunization Initiative - Phase 2 (2003 - 2008) continues to provide technical assistance to World Health Organization (WHO), Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and UNICEF to improve access to and vaccination coverage of basic vaccine-preventable diseases; increase the capacities of health-care related staff in disease surveillance, data management, epidemiology, laboratory diagnostics and technologies, vaccine and injection safety, adverse events reporting, communication and social mobilization. - To date the project has mobilized and supported over 40 technical missions to countries such as Guinea, Pakistan, Haiti, Sudan, Chad, Niger, Mali, Eritrea, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, El Salvador, Uzbekistan, Chad, Botswana, Laos, El Salvador, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Yemen and Cuba. |
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Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit | Impact of Low literacy on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control (PHAC)Public Health Practice as it Relates to Chronic Disease (PHAC)Informing a Systematic Review of Public Health Practice and Community Programs with Regards to Healthy Living and Chronic Diseases (PHAC)Increasing the Skills of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) Working in Chronic Disease Prevention (PHAC)Cannabis-Impaired Driving: A Public Awareness Campaign (Health Canada)Smoking Cessation Resources for Women at Risk (Health Canada)Climate Change: Snapshot of Adaptation and Response (Health Canada)Expert Panel on Health Literacy (Canadian Council on Learning) |
Policy or Program | Recommendations for the implementation of the Integrated Strategy on Healthy Living and Chronic Disease and on the interface between public health and primary care. |