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The Approach

Investment in Population Health in Five OECD Countries

OECD Health Working Papers N-2, 2003
There is growing interest in the potential for preventive interventions to improve average health status in OECD countries and to tackle remaining health inequalities. The paper focuses on population health investment in Australia, Canada, Korea, Sweden and Switzerland.

Creative Spice: Learning From Communities About Putting The Population Health Approach Into Action (2002)
Is a synthesis and discussion of the lessons learned by participants in eleven voluntary-sector projects in BC and the Yukon that received funding assistance from Health Canada's Population Health Fund to put a population health approach into action at the community level.

The Limitations of Population Health as a Model for a New Public Health: A Critical Analysis.
Raphael, D., & Bryant, T. Health Promotion International, 17, 189-199. (2002)

Changing Approaches to Health: The History of a Federal/Provincial/Territorial Advisory  Committee (2001)
Provides an overview and history of the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Advisory Committee.

The Population Health Template: Key Elements and Actions That Define A Population Health Approach (2001)
Organizes and consolidates current understandings of population health.  The template outlines the procedures and processes required to implement a population health approach. 
Also see: The Population Health Template Working Tool and Overview/Handout (colour version / black and white version)

Health Beyond Health Care: Twenty-five Years of Federal Health Policy Development
Provides a historical context and identifies the conditions that foster policy innovations within the public sector, and the challenges ahead to implementation of population health insights. 

Putting the Population Into Population Health. 
Raphael, D. & Bryant, T. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 91, 9-12. (2000)

HORIZONS Newsletter: Population health Edition (1999)
Articles highlight early child hood development; social inequalities in health; global perspectives on health and more.

Health Promotion and the Common Good: Theoretical Considerations.
Robertson, A. Critical Public Health, 9, 117-133. (1999)

Information/Resources/Links for Population Health Website (1999)
Provides a listing of population health information and resources available on the internet (Sept/Oct, 1999).

Population Health in Canada: A Systematic Review  (1998)
By Michael V. Hayes and James R. Dunn (Canadian Policy Research Network Study No. H01, 1998) 
Traces the development of population health through major source documents, critiques, policy documents, and technical papers that espouse or engage the ideas of population health. 

Shifting Discourses on Health in Canada: From Health Promotion to Population Health.
Robertson, A. Health Promotion International, 13, 155-166. (1998)

Taking Action On Population Health (1998)
Provides Health Canada employees with an understanding of what the approach means to their work, offers a review of its evolution and links to health promotion. 

Wealth, Equity, and Health care: a Critique of a Population Health Perspective on the Determinants of Health. 
Poland. B., Coburn, D., Robertson, A., & Eakin, J. Social Science and Medicine, 46, 785-798. (1998)

National Forum on Health (1997)
Series of five reports provide a invaluable reference guide for all those interested in health and health care issues.  The Forum officially ended its operations in 1997.

Paradigms Lost: Examining the Impact of a Shift from Health Promotion to Population Health on HIV/AIDS Policy and Program in Canada.
Wong, D. Ottawa: Canadian AIDS Society. (1997)

Integrated Model of Population Health and Health Promotion (1996)
Examines how population health and health promotion are related.

The Population Health/Health Promotion Debate in Canada: The politics of explanation, economics, and action. 
Labonte, R. Critical Public Health, 7, 7-27. (1997)

The CIAR vision of the determinants of health: A critique.
Coburn, D. & Poland, B. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 87, 308-310. (1996)

Population Health Promotion: An Integrated Model of Population Health and Health Promotion (1996)
Examines how population health and health promotion are related.

Towards a Common Understanding: Clarifying Core Concepts of Population Health - A Discussion Paper (1996)
Promotes a common understanding of population health and describes how a population health approach will guide future program and policy development within Health Canada.

Report of the Roundtable on Population Health and Health Promotion (1996)
Summarizes the key elements, noting areas of agreement and disagreement, and highlighting recommendations for follow-up developed by the participants.

Population Health and Health Promotion: What do they have to say to each other?
Labonte, R. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 86, 165-168. (1995)

Why Population Health? 
Frank, J. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 86, 162-164. (1995)

Strategies for Population Health - Investing in the Health of Canadians (1994)
Identifies broad population health strategies on which the provincial, territorial and federal governments could collaborate and achieve significant results.

Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not? 
By the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research. 
Highlights observations that have heretofore been difficult to explain within traditional clinical or health promotion understandings of what makes some populations healthier than others. (1994)

Achieving Health For All: A Framework For Health Promotion (1986)
Proposed an approach called "health promotion", an integration of ideas from several arenas of public health, health education and public policy.

Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (1986)
Presents fundamental strategies and approaches for health promotion that still have much currency in Canada and internationally.

A New Perspective on the Health of Canadians (1974)
The 1974 report on health promotion that led to an evolution in thinking about health.