Title: Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada Inspiring Integration and Action Ontario Chronic Disea
1Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of
CanadaInspiring Integration and Action Ontario
Chronic Disease Prevention AllianceJean
HarveyMarch 23, 2007
2Questions to Consider
- How would you describe the added value of CDPAC?
- How do you think CDPAC could better support the
efforts of the P/T Network?
3Chronic Disease Burden in Canada
All Cardiovascular Disease 37
Total Number of Deaths 219530.
Abbreviations AMI - Acute Myocardial
Infarction, IHD - Ischemic Heart Disease, CVD -
Cardiovascular Disease
ICD-9 Codes All Cardiovascular (390-459) AMI
(410) Other IHD (411-414) Cerebrovascular
Disease (430-438)
Accidents/Poisonings/ Violence (E800-E999)
Cancer (140-239) Infectious Diseases (001-139)
Diabetes (250) Respiratory
(460-519)
4Commonality of Risk Factors and Determinants
- Biology Genetic Endowment
- Healthy Childhood Development
- Culture
- Employment
- Gender
- Health Services
Risk Factors
Chronic Diseases
Tobacco
Mental Illness
Unhealthy Eating
Cancer
Obesity
Respiratory
Alcohol Abuse
Diabetes
Physical Inactivity
Cardiovascular
- Income Social Status
- Social Support Networks
- Education
- Social Environments
Psychosocial Distress
- Physical Environment
- Gender
- Personal Health Practices Coping Skills
Health Determinants
5CDPAC Vision
- Canadians will be supported by a comprehensive,
sufficiently resourced, sustainable, and
integrated system of research, surveillance,
policies and programs that maintain health and
prevent chronic disease. - The systems will link together and build upon
existing initiatives in a coordinated and
synergistic way.
- The systems will be broader than just the health
sector, and will include other relevant sectors
such as transportation, education, social
services, recreation, and others. - Reflect a Canadian society that values health as
a fundamental right.
6CDPAC Mission
- Fostering a countrywide movement towards an
integrated, population health approach for the
prevention of chronic diseases through
collaborative leadership, advocacy and capacity
building.December 2002
7Description of CDPAC Role
- Voice of influence for systems changes to reduce
chronic diseases and improve health - The synergistic and dynamic network of
intersectoral partners at all levels to share
information, plan and act together
8Current Structure
Alliance members, active participants and
subscribers
Provincial and Territorial Alliances
National Stakeholders
Steering CommitteeWorking Groups
Secretariat
9Stakeholders
Engaged Communities of Practice
Tobacco
Public Health
Prevention Research
Nutrition
Canadian Municipalities
Professional Assoc.
Physical Activity
Others
Workplace
School Health
10Steering Committee
- Canadian Cancer Society
- Canadian Council for Tobacco Control
- Canadian Public Health Association
- Coalition for Active Living
- Canadian Diabetes Association
- Canadian Alliance for Mental Illness and Mental
Health - Public Health Agency of Canada
- Dietitians of Canada
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
- YMCA Canada
- The Canadian Lung Association
- The Kidney Foundation of Canada
- Representatives of the CDPAC Network of P/T
Alliances - BC Healthy Living Alliance
- Newfoundland Wellness Council
11CDPAC Network of Provincial/Territorial Alliances
- Formed in 2004
- Representatives from all provinces and
territories participate - Facilitate ongoing dialogue, information exchange
and collaborative action
12CDPAC Functions
- Collaborative Leadership - facilitating joint
problem solving and decision making among key
stakeholders - Enhancing Capacity - developing, fostering and
supporting relationships and resources at all
levels (community, organizational,
inter-organizational and systems) - Advocacy - influencing public opinion and
societal attitudes to bring about changes in
government, community or institutional policies - Governance and Administration
131 - Collaborative Leadership
- Chair the Network of P/T Alliances
(teleconferences and in-person meetings) - Co-Chair the Healthy Living Issues Group
- Co-Chair the Population Health Intervention
Research Initiative for Canada - Convener of Stakeholders on Chronic Disease
Prevention Issues eg. Obesity
14 Collaborative Leadership(example)
- Marketing and Advertising to Children
- Background paper
- Think Tank
- Presentation to Standing Committee on Health
- Session at the CDPAC Conference
- Planning a policy consensus conference
15New Project for CDPAC
- Alignment of primary prevention priorities across
disease-specific and other health promotion
strategies
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17 2 - Enhancing Capacity
- Hosted two National Conferences
- Web resource centre including Hot Topics series
(improvements to be implemented this year) - Hosted the Advertising to Children Think Tank and
Built Environments Roundtables - Developed papers on advertising to children and
the built environments - Completed the P/T Alliance history document
18New Project for CDPAC
- Best Practices
- Best Practices Portal
- Background paper on information exchange/capacity
building - Knowledge development/exchange capacity
19 3 - Advocacy
- Presentations
- Finance Committee
- Standing Committee on Health
- Childrens Physical Activity Tax Credit Panel
- CDPAC information kits MPs
- Response to government initiatives/programs
- Canadas Food Guide
- Federal Budget
- Papers on advertising to children and the built
environment provide a platform - CDPAC Conference Participants Call to Action
20Federal Government Landscape
- National Collaborating Centres
- Pan Canadian Public Health Network
- Canadian Best Practices System
- Population Health Intervention Research
Initiative for Canada (PHIRIC) - Disease Specific Strategies
21National Collaborating Centres
- Aboriginal Health (UBC)
- Determinants of Health (SFXU)
- Environmental Health (BC-CDC)
- Healthy Public Policy (Institute national de
sauté publique du Quebec) - Infectious Diseases (Centre-Winnipeg)
- Methods and Tools (Ontario)
- to encourage and support successful knowledge
transfer between practitioners, researchers and
policy makers help shape evidence-based public
health polices, programs and practices
22Pan Canadian Public Health Network
- Population Health Promotion Expert Group
- Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention and Control
Expert Group - share public health knowledge and
expertise-learn from best practices in the
country- collaboration and cooperation from the
provinces/territory
23Canadian Best Practices System for Health
Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention
- To facilitate knowledge exchange about best
practices among decision makers in research,
policy development and practice - To build consensus about best practices
approaches - Provide a centralized access point for these
approaches and coordinate activities to increase
the uptake and utilization of best practices
approaches. - The long-term goal of the Canadian Best Practices
System is to improve health, reduce the burden
of chronic disease and reduce costs to the health
care system.
24Population Health Intervention Research
Initiative for Canada (PHIRIC)
- 10 year, pan-Canadian capacity development
initiative - Leadership from major research, policy and
practice organizations (e.g., CIHR, CDPAC, PHAC,
CPHI, CBRPE) - Goal is to better bridge research and evaluation
with population health interventions (policies
and programs)
25Disease Specific Strategies
- Canadian Strategy for Cancer Control
- Canadian Heart Health Strategy
- Canadian Diabetes Strategy
- Canadian Stroke Strategy
- National Respiratory Health Framework
26- Contact Information
- Jean Harvey
- CDPAC
- jharvey_at_cdpac.ca
- 613-565-2522 ext 308
27Questions to Consider
- How would you describe the added value of CDPAC?
- How do you think CDPAC could better support the
efforts of the P/T Network?