HLTH202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Canadian Medical Association, Knowledge Translation, Environmental Health

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH202
• Professor: Melody Ninyoma

Document Summary

Public health on strategic plan: scientific and technical expertise to strengthen the sector, accelerate integrates population health monitoring. Its important for teams to have a translator to help the population understand the quantitative language: enabling policy program and practice action. Importance on translating and knowledge to build skills in the health workforce: advancing public health knowledge and evidence. Mainly knowledge translation: attract and retrain teams of people. We need to change the environments that canadians are living in to continue to challenge the crisis" that we have i. e. obesity, nutrition. We need to implement social policy in all sectors to not only change population habits, but also find ways to maintain these habits. We have to be more concerned about chronic diseases, eating well etc. aging problems confront the entire world. We need to look at environmental, social, cultural, economic and all other sectored changes. We need to think about the growing aging population and the growing dependent population.