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Hot TOPHCs: Public health innovation: Are we there yet?
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Get your news here, first, about The Ontario Public Health Convention 2011. Thursday, 7 April 2011. Public health innovation: Are we there yet? Did you know that approximately two billion people travel each year by air? If you are an infectious disease specialist, you read that statement as:. 8220;uh oh. infectious diseases to travel by airplanes globally even faster.”. Biodiaspora also works together with Healthmap project ( www.healthmap.org. 8220;We need to set sights on a goal and not be going in cir...
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Hot TOPHCs: Presidents’ reception: saluting the spirit of collaboration
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Get your news here, first, about The Ontario Public Health Convention 2011. Thursday, 7 April 2011. Presidents’ reception: saluting the spirit of collaboration. The first day of the inaugural Ontario Public Health Convention came to a festive end with the Presidents’ Reception in the Frontenac Ballroom. 8217;s Chief Medical Officer of Health, and David McKeown,. 8217;s Medical Officer of Health. Each offered thoughts on the significance of this convention. A sense of the importance of this public health ...
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Hot TOPHCs: Assessing equity: There is no “general population”
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Get your news here, first, about The Ontario Public Health Convention 2011. Thursday, 7 April 2011. Assessing equity: There is no “general population”. Delegates attending the afternoon Regatta Room session entitled “ A Health Equity Assessment Framework for Ontario’s Public Health Units. The equity assessment framework comprises four steps, each with its own series of questions and issues for consideration. Public health professionals can employ a variety of recommended processes – including a...The del...
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Hot TOPHCs: Gulf Oil Spill as public health crisis: what the media didn’t tell us… and perhaps didn’t understand
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Get your news here, first, about The Ontario Public Health Convention 2011. Friday, 8 April 2011. Gulf Oil Spill as public health crisis: what the media didn’t tell us… and perhaps didn’t understand. Most everyone in the attendance at TOPHC’s second plenary session on Thursday morning knew of the massive British Petroleum oil spill that took place in the Gulf of Mexico, off of the coast of. LuAnn White, director of the. For Applied Environmental Health (CAEPH), in. 8220;If you’re not thinking in th...
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Hot TOPHCs: When it comes behaviour change, throw out the rule book!
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Get your news here, first, about The Ontario Public Health Convention 2011. Thursday, 7 April 2011. When it comes behaviour change, throw out the rule book! What’s wrong with rules? Rules can have the opposite of the desired effect and may reinforce undesired behaviour. Anyone with a teenage knows that using “don’t” is an invitation to “do”. People spend their lifetime breaking rules. Think about how many people drive above the speed limit, “because everyone does”. And there are too many rules to remember.
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Hot TOPHCs: Social determinants of health: perception, misperception and utter lack of perception
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Get your news here, first, about The Ontario Public Health Convention 2011. Saturday, 9 April 2011. Social determinants of health: perception, misperception and utter lack of perception. University of Waterloo professor Kelly Anthony has been troubled by her undergraduate students’ lack of awareness of the determinants of health – especially the social determinants of health (SDH) – which she’s observed over a period of years. She’s concerned, too, that students in. Recent literature on the perceptions o...
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Hot TOPHCs: HIRA learning: identifying hazards, assessing risk
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Get your news here, first, about The Ontario Public Health Convention 2011. Friday, 8 April 2011. HIRA learning: identifying hazards, assessing risk. Simultaneous workshops in separate Dockside rooms on Thursday afternoon gave delegates an opportunity to apply their understanding of Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment to real and hypothetical situations. In the session entitled Public Health Planning for Mass Gathering Events – Lessons from the G8 and G20. Judyth Gulden and Richard Bochenek offered...
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Hot TOPHCs: Lessons from Haiti
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Get your news here, first, about The Ontario Public Health Convention 2011. Thursday, 7 April 2011. As relief efforts continue in Haiti, TOPHC – in partnership with Roche Canada – hosted a feature breakfast that highlighted the ongoing public health crisis in Haiti. We spoke with Creft after her video was played. What should we know about Haiti and the ongoing crisis there? What are some of the ‘global lessons’ from Haiti’s crisis, and the Red Cross efforts there? The Red Cross has been in Haiti for a lo...
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Hot TOPHCs: Assessing progress towards equity
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Get your news here, first, about The Ontario Public Health Convention 2011. Saturday, 9 April 2011. Assessing progress towards equity. The third plenary of TOPHC 2011 focused on an oft-recurring theme: achieving health equity and reducing health inequalities. OAHPP, OPHA and alPHa. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). TOPHC content and human cloning. Social determinants of health: perception, misperc. To evacuate or shelter-in-place? Assessing progress towards equity. Its full of holes, and needs repair.
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Hot TOPHCs: TOP 10 reasons to love ONBOIDS
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Get your news here, first, about The Ontario Public Health Convention 2011. Thursday, 7 April 2011. TOP 10 reasons to love ONBOIDS. 1 ONBOIDS: It just sounds neat. Of course, it stands for the Ontario Burden of Infectious Disease Study). No one in Canada has looked specifically at the burden of infectious diseases. 7 authors, many more contributors. On previous international and Canadian work. 5 Big numbers, huge implications. 6 Identification.of the most burdensome infectious agents. 10 Informs decision...
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