People, Place and Health

Health Canada
2007
ISSN 1496-466 X

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In this Issue

• About the Health Policy Research Bulletin
• People, Place and Health
• Glossary
• The Policy Challenges (Being Strategic with Our Interventions)
• Setting the Stage (Setting the Stage: The Influence of Place on Health)
• Defining, Measuring and Analyzing Health and Place
• Population Patterns (Population Patterns in Canada)
• Health Across Canada's Places (Health Variations across Canada: A Snapshot)
• Variations in Rural Health (Rural Places: Variations in Health)
• Health Disparities within Canadian Cities (Under the Microscope: Health Dispartities within Canadian Cities)
• Built Evironment: Helping or Hindering? (Exploring the Intersection between the Built Environment and Health Behaviors)
• Air Pollution: Uneven Health Risks (Air Pollution: Uneven Distribution of Health Risks)
• Researching Success in First Nations Communities (What Makes First Nations Communities Successful?)
• Who's Doing What?
• Using Canada's Health Data
• Mark Your Calendar
• References

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About the Health Policy Research Bulletin

Health Canada's Health Policy Research Bulletin is published twice yearly with the aim of strengthening the evidence base for health policy decision making. The Bulletin features research from across Health Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), other federal departments and academia. A Steering Committee composed of representatives from Health Canada and PHAC recommends policy research themes to be featured and reviews the text for each issue. The Committee is supported by the Bulletin Secretariat within the Data Development and Research Dissemination Division of the Applied Research and Analysis Directorate, Health Policy Branch, Health Canada, which coordinates all aspects of the Bulletin's development, production, release and dissemination.

The opinions expressed in these articles, including interpretation of the data, are those of the authors and are not to be taken as official statements of Health Canada.

Special thanks for this issue go to the Guest Editor, Mark Wheeler, Assistant Director of the former Policy Coordination Division, Policy Coordination and Planning Directorate, Health Policy Branch. Appreciation is also extended to Allium Consulting Group Inc., for editing, design and layout.

Health Canada is the federal department responsible for helping the people of Canada maintain and improve their health. We assess the safety of drugs and many consumer products, help improve the safety of food, and provide information to Canadians to help them make healthy decisions. We provide health services to First Nations people and to Inuit communities. We work with the provinces to ensure our health care system serves the needs of Canadians.

Published by authority of the Minister of Health.

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The Bulletin Secretariat

Managing Editor: Nancy Hamilton
Associate Editor: Linda Senzilet
Assistant Editor: Julie Creasey
Assistant Editor: Shamali Gupta
Distribution and Promotion: Raymonde Sharpe

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The Health Policy Research Bulletin is published two times a year with the aim of strengthening the evidence base on policy issues of importance to Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). Each issue is produced on a specific theme and, through a collaborative approach, draws together research from across Health Canada, PHAC and other partners in the Federal Health Portfolio. The research is presented through a series of interrelated articles that examine the scope of the issue, provide an analysis of the impacts and potential interventions, and discuss how the findings can be applied in the policy development process.

Following is a list of all of our past issues, available in electronic HTML and PDF versions at: www.healthcanada.gc.ca/hpr-bulletin, or by contacting us at: <bulletininfo@hc-sc.gc.ca >.

• Financial Implications of Aging for the Health Care System (March 2001)
• The Next Frontier: Health Policy and the Human Genome (September 2001)
• Health Promotion-Does it Work? (March 2002)
• Health and the Environment: Critical Pathways (October 2002)
• Closing the Gaps in Aboriginal Health (March 2003)
• Antimicrobial Resistance: Keeping it in the Box (June 2003)
• Complementary and Alternative Health Care: The Other Mainstream? (November 2003)
• Health Human Resources: Balancing Supply and Demand (May 2004)
• Child Maltreatment: A Public Health Issue (September 2004)
• Changing Fertility Patterns: Trends and Implications (May 2005)
• Climate Change: Preparing for the Health Impacts (November 2005)
• Social Capital and Health (September 2006)
• The Working Conditions of Nurses: Confronting the Challenges (February 2007)