Child and youth health in the National Agency for Public Health

Legal foundations for a national public health agency in Canada.

This commentary addresses some of the key legal challenges associated with establishing a national public health agency in Canada. These include issues related to privacy and confidentiality of personal health information in the public health context, constraints on the jurisdiction and powers of a national agency, the need to respect individual rights and freedoms in an outbreak situation, and...

Child and youth injury prevention: A public health approach.

The majority of child and youth injuries are preventable. This statement provides background, direction and a statement of commitment to the issue of child and youth injury prevention in Canada. It acts as a foundation to build upon by focusing first on definitions, scope and priorities for injury prevention. It also describes the burden and patterns of unintentional injury, and the principles ...

Who Stays in Treatment? Child and Family Predictors of Youth Client Retention in a Public Mental Health Agency.

The present study examined possible predictors of youth client retention in therapy in a large community-based sample. We used several conceptualizations of retention, including (a) "intake retention" (i.e., returned to treatment after intake session); (b) "mutual termination" (i.e., termination agreed upon by family and therapist), (c) "mean treatment duration" (i.e., completing the mean numbe...

The FDA as a public health agency.

n engl j med 360;24 nejm.org june 11, 2009 2493 Act. The act sought to prevent the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors.” The office initially charged with this responsibility was the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture. Since that time, the bureau has grown into the Food and Drug Adm...

Canada's Public Health Agency: bound and gagged?