Published in Canadian Journal of Public Health
Performance measurement (PM) aims to ensure transparency and effectiveness in public spending. More specifically, it provides a foundation that allows funders to determine whether an intervention has achieved its stated objective, thus improving understanding of what interventions should be funded in the future. Ideally, performance measurement sho...
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SettingThis review focuses on the work of the Equipping Canadians: Mental Health throughout Life and Achieving Healthier Weights in Canada’s Communities projects funded under the Public Health Agency of Canada Innovation Strategy (PHAC-IS) during the latter half of phase 2 (2013/14).InterventionThe PHAC-IS was a national strategic grantmaking progr...
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SettingThis article is based on the experience of the Public Health Agency of Canada Innovation Strategy (PHAC-IS) federal funding program in building Canadian population health partnerships.InterventionThe PHAC-IS addressed complex public health issues by funding evidence-based population health interventions in communities across Canada. These in...
Published in Canadian Journal of Public Health
Published in Canadian Journal of Public Health
SettingThe Public Health Agency of Canada’s Innovation Strategy (PHAC-IS) was established amid calls for diverse structural funding mechanisms that could support research agendas to inform policy making across multiple levels and jurisdictions. Influenced by a shifting emphasis towards a population health approach and growing interest in social inn...
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SettingThe Public Health Agency of Canada Innovation Strategy (PHAC-IS) funded the development and delivery of interventions that addressed priority population health issues over a 10-year period between 2009 and 2020. The design of the PHAC-IS funding program integrated the intentional effort of scale-up to increase the reach and impact of proven ...
Published in Canadian Journal of Public Health
SettingThe Public Health Agency of Canada Innovation Strategy (PHAC-IS) was a national strategic funding program designed to test, deliver, scale up and evaluate complex population health interventions to determine how they bring about change, the context in which they worked best and for which populations.InterventionThe PHAC-IS experience provide...
Published in Canadian Journal of Public Health
The author, an Indigenous physician, offers his reflections on the history of scientific research with Indigenous People and its past role in ethical breaches and excesses of colonialism, as a backdrop to the relatively recent advances in collaborative, community-based participatory research involving First Nations and Inuit in Canada. The First Na...
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ObjectivesTo identify food sources of nutrients in First Nations adults in Canada and to establish whether these populations are meeting their nutrient requirements and whether traditional foods (TF) contribute to better nutrient intake.MethodsThe First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment Study is a cross-Canada participatory study of First Nat...
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ObjectiveThe primary objective of this participatory study was to assess the current body burden of mercury among First Nations adults.MethodsThe First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment Study (2008–2018) collected regionally representative data from First Nations adults living on reserves south of the 60th parallel. Mercury was analyzed in ha...
