While provinces work on the specifics of health system reform, the federal government has an opportunity to change the ethos behind health and wellness in Canada.
The focus of our second health panel will be on the role of the federal government in catalyzing better public health outcomes, such as reducing obesity and related chronic conditions.
A key objective will be to determine which policies yield real results and whether broad-brush or targeted approaches are the most effective.
Tuesday May 28, 2013
4:30 pm, Château Laurier Hotel, Ottawa
It is critical to deploy public health resources effectively. Many policy initiatives in this area appear full of promise, yet yield little in terms of behavioural change.
Cognizant of this, our panel will focus on identifying those interventions that evidence suggests will have the greatest overall impact on the health of our nation.
Panelists include:
- Melody C. Barnes, Vice Provost, NYU and former White House Director of Domestic Policy under President Barack Obama
- Alex Munter, President and CEO, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario
- Rodney Ghali, Director General of the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention, Public Health Agency of Canada
- Alexis Williams, Director of Health and Wellness, Loblaw Companies Limited
Background reading:
- Canada 2020′s Background Paper ‘Confronting the crisis in public health’
- Canada 2020′s Issue Deck for the event. Click here.
- Various materials from OECD Economics of Prevention project
- Government of Ontario’s Health Kids panel report ‘No Time to Wait: The Healthy Kids Strategy’
- The ‘Let’s Move!’ childhood obesity report
- Key Canada facts (updated for 2012) from the OECD report ‘OBESITY AND THE ECONOMICS OF PREVENTION: FIT NOT FAT’
Hello!
Just to clarify – it says registration will open in April 2012. Is that a typo – is it supposed to say April 2013?
Thanks for your response!
Meghan
Very much a typo – thanks Meghan. Registration will open April 2013.
Hi there,
I received notification of this event from the course coordinator of the Graduate Certificate Program in Population Health Risk Assessment and Management at the University of Ottawa.
As a final project for one of my epidemiology courses, I made an 8 minute video on changes in health perception on both the individual and population levels, as well as ultimately finding a definition for “Health” in general.
I also sent the video to the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, the Minister of Health, for viewing because I think it is important for young people (and all people) to become more interested in the concept of Health. I am not sure whether it will be of interest to the event, but you will be able to find it under the website link attached.
Either way I am looking forward to attending the event.
Thank you for your consideration,
Colbran Marjerrison
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHL0h91tPRo
On a subject matter as critical as Health Care one is very reluctant to offer comments and or observations to be taken out of context; however, with respect and at the risk of some blunt candor nothing at the proposed session planned will further the critical issues facing the Health Care System in Canada. The age old problem with Health Care is not one of funding but, one of division between the Federal and Provincial Governments and the Premiers call jurisdiction.
The Health Care System in Canada remains stagnating between the so called vacuum of the Federal Government and the Provinces-the Provincial Premiers arrive in Ottawa with the same old song sheet “More money to Fund Health Care,and our Social Transfer Payments, and the Equalization Payments” while singing the same old lyrical verse; then “stay out of our Jurisdictional responsibilities”.
The end result is the same; for the past 40 years; the Provinces instead of focusing on Health Care priorities like across the system benchmarking, Emergency room wait times, a viable Electronic Health Record System,National Pharmacy Care System, and creating a new technologically driven Hospital System Business Model, they spend the money on whatever they want with no strings attached and no transparency and or reporting/accountability to Ottawa.
Hospitals and their outrageous salaried Boards operate in a vacuum- the current Hospital Business Model has not worked for 30 years and is a colossal black hole sucking billions out of the Health Care budgets.
Local Integrated Health Care Networks have failed to meet less than 50% of their mandated mission/goals since their inception.
No, Funding is not the issue but what is the issue is Provinces and Premiers who remain buried in the quagmire of jurisdictional political partisan politics, while Health Care cost grow at a yearly rate of 71/2 to 8%.