Canada's Public Health Agency: bound and gagged?

Perinatal health indicators 2013: a surveillance report by the Public Health Agency of Canada's Perinatal Surveillance System.

The Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System (CPSS) is a national health surveillance program of the Public Health Agency of Canada. The CPSS mandate is to monitor and report on key indicators of maternal, fetal and infant health. These indicators include both determinants and outcomes of perinatal health. Perinatal Health Indicators 2013 reports on 13 priority indicators using the most recent da...

Adapting online learning for Canada's Northern public health workforce

BACKGROUND Canada's North is a diverse, sparsely populated land, where inequalities and public health issues are evident, particularly for Aboriginal people. The Northern public health workforce is a unique mix of professional and paraprofessional workers. Few have formal public health education. From 2009 to 2012, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) collaborated with a Northern Advisory ...

Congenital anomalies surveillance in Canada.

Congenital anomalies (CA) are present in approximately 3% of all newborn babies and account for about 12% of paediatric hospital admissions. They represent an important public health problem. Surveillance is especially important so that preventive measures such as folic acid fortification can be properly assessed without resorting to a series of ad hoc studies. Canada's surveillance of CAs is w...

Bound and Gagged: The Peculiar Predicament of Professional Jurors

Sex and gender reporting in health research: why Canada should be a leader.

Sex and gender have been demonstrated to influence all domains of health, from basic mechanisms of disease development to health service utilization. It is therefore no longer acceptable to ignore sex and gender issues in health research reports if these reports are to be deemed accurate. Funding agencies and journals have been identified as primary change agents in health research systems. Can...