Abstract
The population health movement has gained prominence in Canada and elsewhere with policy makers, program planners and researchers taking note that health is strongly influenced by factors that lie largely beyond the health-care system. The development of population health in Canada was the focus of the National Conference on Shared Responsibility for Health & Social Impact Assessments: Advancing the Agenda held May 2–3 1999 in Vancouver, Canada. A longer version of this paper was distributed to conference participants to provide some common knowledge and vocabulary. It also introduced and discussed definitional, normative, logistical, political, methodological, structural and resource considerations with respect to furthering the population health agenda in Canada.
Abrégé
Le mouvement pour la santé de la population gagne en importance au Canada et ailleurs. Les stratèges, les planificateurs de programme et les chercheurs se rendent compte que la santé est grandement influencée par des forces et des facteurs qui se situent en grande partie à l’extérieur du système de soins de santé. L’évolution de la santé de la population au Canada était le point central de la Conférence nationale sur le partage de la responsabilité relativement à l’évaluation des répercussions sociales et sur la santé qui s’est tenue les 2 et 3 mai 1999 à Vancouver (Canada). Une version plus longue de cet article a été distribuée à la Conférence afin de fournir des savoir et vocabulaire communs. Afin de faire avancer le dossier de la santé de la population au Canada, elle introduisait et discutait aussi les considérations qui touchent les définitions et le normatif, de même que les considérations logique, politiques, méthodologiques, structurelles et de ressources.
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