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| | | Projects |  | Canada: Local Public Health Infrastructure Development (LoPHID), 1998-2000 |  | Nova Scotia, Northern Region, 1998-2000 |  | Northern Nova Scotia: Perinatal care, 1998 | | Northern Nova Scotia: Child health practices, 9-12 years, 1999 | | Northern Nova Scotia: The path to school: 0-5 years, 2000 | | Prince Edward Island, 1998-2000 | | PEI: Perinatal health: province-wide cycle, 2000 | | PEI: Seniors and dependencies, 1998 | | PEI: Perinatal health: preliminary cycle, 1999 | | Labrador, 1999-2000 | | Labrador: Breastfeeding, 1999 | | Labrador: Children's dental health, 2000 | | Newfoundland, Eastern Region, 1998-2000 | | Eastern Newfoundland: youth risk and resilience, 1998 | | Eastern Newfoundland, Perinatal Care, 1999 | | Eastern Newfoundland: Heart health, 2000 | | Nova Scotia, Eastern Region, 1998-2000 | | Eastern Nova Scotia: Decision-making in 9-12 year olds, 1999 | | Eastern Nova Scotia: Perinatal care, 1998 | | Countries | | Canada | | Themes | | Capacity building | | Local health systems | | Library Docs | | Canada (REP): Local evidence-based planning in Atlantic Canada: LoPHID Colloquium Discussion Paper, 1999 | | Canada (SUM): Breastfeeding attitudes, perceptions and practices in Labrador, 1999 | | Canada (SUM): Children’s Dental Health in Labrador, 2000 | | Canada (SUM): Examining Prenatal Services in Newfoundland, 1999 | | Canada (SUM): Decision-making in 9-12 year olds in Eastern Region Nova Scotia, 1999 | | Canada (SUM): Perinatal Care and Caring in Nova Scotia Northern Region, 1998 | | Canada (SUM): Child Health Practices; 9-12 Years in Nova Scotia Northern Region, 1999 | | Canada (SUM): The Path to School: 0-5 Years in Nova Scotia Northern Region, 2000 | | Canada (SUM): Perinatal Health Province-wide Cycle in Prince Edward Island, 2000 | | Canada (SUM): Seniors and Dependencies in Prince Edward Island, 1998 | | Canada (SUM): Perinatal Health - Information Cycle in Prince Edward Island, 1999 | | Canada (THS): Youth Risk and Resilience, Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador, 1998 | | Canada (THS): Hand-held computer technology for capture of routine perinatal data, 1999 | | Media Clips | | 1999, 29 Oct: Globe and Mail: Children's self-esteem affects diet, study finds | | 1999: 28 Oct: Daily News, Truro: Many 12-year-olds believe they have weight problem | | 1998, 29 Aug: Labrador Examiner: Healthier Start | | 1999, 18 Jan: Chronicle-Herald: Smoking in pregnancy on the rise | | 1998: 31 Aug: The Labradorian: Breastfeeding survey being conducted | | Canada: Local Public Health Infrastructure Development (LoPHID), 1998-2000
Public sector managers make daily choices to allocate limited resources. When their decisions and dialogue with stakeholders is based increasingly on evidence, this can optimise public health investment. In Canada, despite availability of large volumes of high quality linkable and geo-indexed data, local and provincial public health managers often find themselves without the information they need to enhance the impact of their programs.
Between 1998 and 2000, CIET methods were adapted for use in the Local Public Health Infrastructure Development (LoPHID) project, a Health Canada pilot effort in five health regions in the Atlantic Provinces. The aim of LoPHID was to increase local capacity to plan strategically, to access existing data, to obtain and to use local evidence. The LoPHID framework allowed each region to pursue its own priorities and to resolve its own needs for evidence, but in a way that permitted eventual aggregation to provincial and national level.
For summaries by region go to the separate cycles in each region.
On July 14-16 1999 CIETcanada in collaboration with Health Canada and the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada sponsored a colloquium discussing LoPHID. A paper summarizing discussions at that colloquium is available from the Library. |
