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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.

An Annotated Bibliography on Indicators for the Determinants of Health (2000)
An overview of some of the key documents that are shaping the measurement of outcomes and impacts related to determinants. Creates a menu of indicators that are currently being used. 

An Assessment of the Methods and Concepts Used to Synthesize the Evidence of Effectiveness in Health Promotion: A Review of 17 Initiatives (2001)
Examines how seventeen Canadian and international initiatives synthesized evidence of effectiveness. The processes are critiqued from a health promotion perspective and an ideal framework is proposed.

Are Outcomes the Best Outcomes? (1999)
This report puts forward several proposals to help address the disjuncture between broad community work and narrowly defined outcomes. 

Assessing the Health of Children in Manitoba: A Population-Based Study (2001)
This report pays close attention to the role that income and income-related factors might play in child health. 

Building a Healthy Future (2000)
Provides health intermediaries and the general public with key messages from Toward a Healthy Future: Second Report on the Health of Canadians. 

The Canadian Experience of Intersectoral Collaboration for Health Gains
By the Canadian Public Health Association for the World Health Organization's 1997 conference, Renewal of Health for All: Intersectoral Collaboration for Health Gains. E-mail the CPHA Health Resources Centre at: hrc/cds@CPHA.ca. 

The Canadian Handbook on Health Impact Assessment (1999)
Provides EIA practitioners, government, non-government, health professionals and academic representatives with the methods and disciplines of health assessment.

Canadian Journal of Public Health - Vol 90, Supplement 1, Nov/Dec (1999)
Presents several articles presented at the National Conference on Shared Responsibility for Health and Social Impact Assessment.

Canadian Research on Immigration and Health (1999)
This report is part of Health Canada's contribution to the Metropolis project and presents a scan of Canadian research on topics related to immigration health. 

Case Study of Health Goals Development in the Province of British Columbia 
By T.A. Chomik, Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia, 1998.

Case Studies of the Regional Mobilization of Population Health (2001)
Presents evidence from six case studies across Canada which can be used to inform the practice and marketing of the population health approach.

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 CIAR Vision of the Determinants of Health: A Critique.
Coburn, D. & Poland, B. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 87, 308-310. (1996)

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.

Departmental Performance Report (DPR) (2000)
The DPR responds to the government's commitments and reflects the goals set by Parliament to improve accountability for results. 

Developmental Health and the Wealth of Nations: Social, Biological, and Educational Dynamics(2000)
Outlines a conceptual framework for the understanding of human development in the modern world and presents detailed discussions of the key evidence. 

The Dufferin Mall Story (2000)
Recognized internationally as an extraordinary experiment in community development, achieved by a unique partnership between private business and public agencies.