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The National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy (NCCHPP) has a goal of supporting public health actors across Canada in their efforts to promote healthy public policies
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The Healthy Public Policy Research Group (Groupe d'étude sur les politiques publiques et la santé. GÉPPS) has a research focus on the processes involved in producing public policies, from their emergence to their evaluation, analyzed through the perspective of their impacts on health.
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17 jun 2010 Best practice in estimating the costs of alcohol – Recommendations for future studies This report of WHO Europe aims to summarize best practice in estimating the attributable and avoidable costs of alcohol, and to make recommendations for making such estimates in future studies. It discusses the conceptual basis for such cost studies, and examines the conceptual and methodological challenges for each type of cost in turn. It proposes nine recommendations such as: changes in the terminology used, more robust attempts to quantify alcohol’s causal effect on harm and costs, a demonstration project using new methodologies, etc. 17 jun 2010 The economics of smoking bans This paper by Charles A.M. de Bartolome, University of Colorado and Ian J. Irvine, Concordia University, Montreal, summarizes the literature on smoking bans and shows the effect of a smoking ban when cigarettes are untaxed. The authors also shows how the potential to buy untaxed but illegal cigarettes limits the government’s ability to reduce smoking using the tax instrument alone. They conclude that the smoking ban is always a useful instrument by which to control smoking, even when the tax can be set optimally. 17 jun 2010 2010 Healthy Cities Conference This conference will be held in Brisbane, Australia on July 12-13, 2010. It will be a platform for Government and Industry sector professionals to discuss causes, effects and solutions that relate to population health, sustainability, natural resource management, transport, climate change and urban design. The Conference will examine the prerequisites for a "Healthy City". 17 jun 2010 17 jun 2010 La consommation d'alcool et la santé publique au Québec This notice was produced by the National Institute of Public Health of Quebec presents the mechanisms of alcohol consumption and its effects on health, a portrait of the burden of disease associated with alcohol, and an estimate of health, social and economic impacts of alcohol consumption in Quebec. It describes the evolution of alcohol consumption in Quebec and the different consumption patterns. It also proposes a review of preventive measures and their effectiveness as well as description of various public policies implemented in Quebec, Canada and elsewhere. |
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