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Section 1: Falls Prevention and Built Environments and Health
Section 2: Healthy Aging
Section 3: Climate Change and Health
Section 4: Competencies and Standards
Section 5: Physical Activity
Section 6 Other: research sites and articles, organizations , government departments,
Section 7: Regioinalization
Section 8: Healthy Weights / obesity
Section 9: Food Insecurity
Section 10: Emergency Preparation
Section 11: Multiple Interventions Toolkit
Section 12: Reducing use of Single-use Plastic Bags

Section 1: Falls Prevention and Built Environments and Health

Section 2: Healthy Aging

Section 3: Climate Change and Health

 

Section 4: Standards and Competencies:

Standards and competencies in community health nursing are of immediate interest to everyone whose interests touch on community health. In October 2003, the Canadian Community Health Nursing Standards of Practice were published. In January 2004, Community Health Nursing was designated a specialty by the Canadian Nurses Association. Since then, the Core Competency Development Committee has been working to draft competencies and prepare questions for a certification exam.

Section 5: Physical Activity:

For decades, research has been clear that the health of many Canadians is at risk due to being physically inactive. Responding to this health risk presents numerous challenges to community health professionals. Practitioners, decision makers and researchers are grappling with issues around the role of public health in promoting physical activity, access to resources and expertise, developing supportive infrastructures, multidisciplinary approaches, intersectoral collaboration, the quandaries of community mobilization, evaluation and more.

  • The Comunity Guide, from the Centre for Disease Control (USA) http://www.TheCommunityGuide.org pages specific to physical activity include: http://www.thecommunityguide.org/pa/default.htm content includes: evidence based recommendations on various approaches to increasing activity: Information: e.g. community campaigns, point of decision making Behaviour and Social: e.g. school based, individual adapted behaviour change, non-family social support Environment and policy: e.g. created/enhanced access, transportation policies, zoning and land use
  • This Google Map/Pedometer info site allows you to draw your routes, calculate the distance traveled and the calories burned. - http://www.webwalking.com/googlemap.htm
  • Coalition for Active Living: As a national action group of more than 80 organizations that focus on health promotion and disease prevention through physical activity, the goal of the coalition is to ensure that the environments where Canadians live, learn, commute, work and play support regular physical activity. - http://www.activeliving.ca/
  • Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging has excellent research based resources and programs for older adults, caregivers and professionals working with older adults. -http://www.webct.uottawa.ca/12318/text/links.htm##
  • Healthy Eating and Active Living (HEAL) and Initiatives Scan Database: This data base includes information from a policy scan of healthy eating and active living initiatives undertaken by governments (Federal, Provincial, and Territorial) across Canada in January 2005. - http://www.ahprc.dal.ca/heal/index.cfm
  • In-Motion: This is a community wide health promotion strategy for physical activity. The web site has numerous health promotion resources. - http://www.in-motion.ca/
  • Physical Activity Research Round Table: Information from the Round Table in 2003 on research needs related to physical activity. http://www.centre4activeliving.ca/Roundtable/
  • Move for Health: This World Health Organization site has links to many information sheets, research studies and information on the international "Move for Health" initiative: http://www.who.int/moveforhealth/
  • International Physical Activity and the Environment Project (IPEN): This site hosts an international network of researchers that aims to increase communication and collaboration, stimulate research and aid in the publication of data related to the environment and physical activity: http://www.ipenproject.org/
  • Active Living Research: The organization hosting this site stimulates and supports research that will identify environmental factors and policies that will stimulate physical activity. The site includes a resource centre of literature citations. - http://activelivingresearch.org/index.php
  • Active Living by Design: Active Living by Design is a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and is a part of the UNC School of Public Health in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. This program establishes innovative approaches to increase physical activity through community design, public policies and communications strategies. http://www.activelivingbydesign.org/
  • Public HealthResearch Education and Development (PHRED) website has Effectiveness in Public Health Practice Reviews. See physical activity related reviews on: http://www.phred-redsp.on.ca/cur_projects/syst_review.html (note link to all reviews is at the bottom of the page)
  • Health Evidence: Access evidence based information on many topics for community health. Physical activity is one of the topics: http://www.health-evidence.ca/
  • Canadian School Physical Activity & Nutrition Network - a pan-Canadian network for enhancing the production and use of innovative, transdisciplinary, school-based youth physical activity and nutrition research Canadian School Physical Activity & Nutrition Networkrelated to the social and physical environment of the school.
    http://www.canspann.uwaterloo.ca/
  • (US) Centre for Disease Control http://www.TheCommunityGuide.org pages specific to physical activity include: http://www.thecommunityguide.org/pa/default.htm content includes: evidence based recommendations on various approaches to increasing activity: Information: e.g. community campaigns, point of decision making Behaviour and Social: e.g. school based, individual adapted behaviour change, non-family social support Environment and policy: e.g. created/enhanced access, transportation policies, zoning and land use **Note: commentary re: e.g. translating evidence-based physical activity interventions into practice.
  • The World Health Organization has an extensive page that shows links to organizations, institutions and government websites with information regarding physical activity. -http://www.who.int/moveforhealth/links/en/
  • The Physical Activity Resource Centre (PARC) provides support to Physical Activity Promoters across Ontario through consultation, training, networking, referrals and Information-sharing. - http://www.ophea.net/parc
  • In particular, physical activity promoters may be interested in the list of 'who's who' per physical activity programs, services, organizations etc. - http://www.ophea.net/parc/referrals.cfm
  • Center for Healthy Aging - model health programs for communities: http://www.healthyagingprograms.org/content.asp?sectionid=73
  • Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute: http://www.cflri.ca/
  • Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology: http://www.csep.ca

Section 6: Other Sites

Research Sites and Articles

  • Health-evidence.ca is a site devoted to providing quality research evidence to public health decision makers. It is designed to save you time by searching, screening, and rating the systematic review evidence and compiling it in a free, searchable online registry: http://health-evidence.ca
  • Public Health Research Research and Education Development Program (PHRED): http://www.hamilton.ca/sphs/ephpp/
  • Nursing Practice in Rural and Remote Canada: http://www.ruralnursing.unbc.ca/ Research paper
  • Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute: http://www.cflri.ca/

Organizations

Government Sites

Section 7: Regionalization

Section 8: Healthy Weights / obesity

  • The Canadian Population Health Initiative (CPHI) is pleased to announce the release of the second report of the Improving the Health of Canadians 2005 - 2006 Report Series, Promoting Healthy Weights. Promoting healthy weights and treating obesity is a complex issue, which involves a variety of factors including genetics and personal choices as well as our social, cultural, physical and economic environments. Improving the Health of Canadians: Promoting Healthy Weights looks at the features of the environments in which we live, learn, work and play that make it easier - or harder - for us as Canadians to make healthier choices about what we eat and how physically active we are. This report is available, free of charge, at: http://www.chnet-works.ca/images/stories/chnetworks/firesidechat/building%20code%20resolution%20cpha%20health%20digest%202007.pdf
  • L'Initiative sur la santé de la population canadienne (ISPC) est fière d'annoncer la publication du deuxième rapport de la série Améliorer la santé des Canadiens 2005- 2006 : Promouvoir le poids santé. La promotion du poids santé et le traitement de l'obésité sont des questions complexes qui touchent notre constitution génétique et nos choix individuels, ainsi que les milieux social, culturel, physique et économique dans lesquels nous évoluons. Améliorer la santé des Canadiens : Promouvoir le poids santé étudie les caractéristiques des milieux dans lesquels nous vivons, apprenons, travaillons et nous divertissons, et la façon dont ces caractéristiques facilitent - ou compliquent - les choix que nous faisons, en tant que Canadiens, pour manger sainement et faire de l'exercice.Le rapport est offert gratuitement à l'adresse: http://www.cihi.ca/poidssante

Section 9: Food Insecurity

Section 10: Emergency Preparation

Section 11: Multiple Interventions

Section 12: Reducing use of Single-use Plastic Bags