Hypertension Framework Update 2015 Oct 26. HTN Fact Sheet 2016 FINAL. Life of Privilege Explained in a $100 Race. In the Caribbean, colonialism and inequality mean hurricanes hit harder. Hurricane Maria, the 15th tropical depression this season, is now battering the Caribbean, just two weeks after Hurricane Irma wreaked havoc in the region. The devastation in Dominica is “mind-boggling,” wrote the country’s prime minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, on Facebook just after midnight on September 19.
The next day, in Puerto Rico, NPR reported via member station WRTU in San Juan that “Most of the island is without power…or water.” Among the Caribbean islands impacted by both deadly storms are Puerto Rico, St Kitts, Tortola and Barbuda. In this region, disaster damages are frequently amplified by needlessly protracted and incomplete recoveries. In 2004, Hurricane Ivan rolled roughshod through the Caribbean with wind speeds of 160 mph. The region’s economy took more than three years to recover.
Grenada’s surplus of US$17 million became a deficit of $54 million, thanks to decreased revenue and the outlays for rehabilitation and reconstruction. Risk, vulnerability and poverty. What Americans tend to get wrong about racism in Canada. Matthew Amha: NBA star Draymond Green's ill-informed comments about Black Lives Matter in Canada have inspired a broader debate about the Black-Canadian freedom struggle Matthew Amha is freelance writer and a journalist with the CBC based in Toronto. Since a triad of murders of unarmed Black people in the United States, the flames of anti-racism and direct action against systemic racism burn anew.
For professional sports, this means that leagues dominated and sustained by the labour of Black athletes are now obliged to take seriously the oft-ignored concerns of those same people. Along with increased attention, the moment has also initiated a corporate scramble of sorts, for major leagues to invest in symbolic shows of solidarity: whether it’s big-money marketing campaigns, on-court insignia, or pseudo national anthem protests. The nature of Green’s question reveals a deep misunderstanding of this historic juncture. MORE: Hal Johnson: ‘Yes, there is systemic racism in Canada’ Strategies for Population Health: Investing in the Health of Canadians. Social determinants and inequities in health for Black Canadians: A Snapshot. Anti-Black Racism as a Determinant of Health The following snapshot aims to highlight how Anti-Black racism and systemic discrimination are key drivers of health inequalities faced by diverse Black Canadian communitiesFootnote i.
Evidence of institutional discrimination in key determinants of health is also presented, including education, income, and housing. Finally, national data is shared demonstrating inequalities in health outcomes and determinants of health. Readers are invited to reflect on how racism and discrimination may contribute to these inequalities. Context Social, economic, and political factors shape the conditions in which individuals grow, live, work, and age, and are vitally important for health and wellbeing.Footnote 1 Inequalities in these conditions can lead to inequalities in health. The impact of these experiences throughout a lifetime can lead to chronic stress and trauma. Experiences of institutional discrimination – Evidence highlights Experiences in Education.
Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion: An International Conference on Health Promotion. November 17-21, 1986 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada This charter is also available for downloading or viewing:Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (PDF document - 192 KB - 5 pages) The first International Conference on Health Promotion, meeting in Ottawa this 21st day of November 1986, hereby presents this CHARTER for action to achieve Health for All by the year 2000 and beyond. This conference was primarily a response to growing expectations for a new public health movement around the world. Discussions focused on the needs in industrialized countries, but took into account similar concerns in all other regions.
It built on the progress made through the Declaration on Primary Health Care at Alma Ata, the World Health Organization's Targets for Health for All document, and the recent debate at the World Health Assembly on intersectoral action for health. Health Promotion Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. Advocate Enable Mediate. Action statement for health promotion in Canada | Canadian Public Health Association. Canadian Public Health Association July 1996 Preamble This Action Statement is the product of a two-year consultation process involving more than 1,000 people. Participants in the process were mainly health professionals and volunteers who work to promote health.
Other participants came from areas such as social services, research, education, recreation, environment and law enforcement. These people share the values and ways of working that define health promotion, even though they may not call themselves health promoters. Together, we represent a community of shared purpose. Canada has a rich legacy in health promotion. Today, poverty is increasing and the income gap between rich and poor is widening.
In light of these realities, promoting health requires that we focus our efforts and prioritize our actions by: Vision and Values Health promotion's commitment is derived from a vision of how the world could be if it was based on an understanding of the determinants of health. Conclusion. Developing a model: Population Health Promotion: An Integrated Model of Population Health and Health Promotion. Developing a Population Health Promotion Model In building a model that can help guide our actions to improve health, three questions are critical. "On WHAT should we take action? " "HOW should we take action? ", and "WITH WHOM should we act? " Figure 1 To develop the details of the three dimensions in the model, we can turn to Strategies for Population Health for a summary of the evidence on the range of health determinants and The Ottawa Charter for a description of comprehensive action strategies.
Using the findings of these documents, which have been accepted nationally and internationally, the model has been completed as shown below. Figure 2 This model also illustrates the need for evidence-based decision-making to underpin the development of population health promotion activities. Research studies that have systematically studied health issues, the underlying factors, the interventions and their impact, both intended and unintended. The decision-making process must be made explicit.
PHAC Population Health Template. Majority (60%) See Racism as a Serious Problem in Canada Today, Up 13 points Since Last Year. Toronto, ON, July 24, 2020 — More Canadians see racism as a serious problem in Canada today than just one year ago. The latest Ipsos poll for Global News finds that sixty percent of Canadians think racism is a serious problem, whether it’s “fairly serious” (36%), “one of the most serious” (20%), or “the most serious problem facing Canada today” (3%). By contrast, fewer than half (47%) rated racism as a serious problem just one year ago.
Racism has been a major issue in the news this summer, with marches and demonstrations around the world in support of the Black Lives Matter movement following the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others at the hands of police in the United States. Here in Canada, the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet following a police interaction in Toronto has also made headlines. Some Canadians are more likely than others to see racism as a serious problem.
A Canadian Issue, in Canadian Institutions “Not Racist, But…” Other attitudes polled on include: Evidence-Based Practice. Evidence-informed Decision-making Evidence-based practice, evidence-based medicine, evidence-based nursing and evidence-informed decision-making began with Florence Nightingale in the 1850s during the Crimean War. She noted a connection between poor sanitary conditions in the hospital and rising death rates among wounded soldiers (Bite-Sized History of Mathematical Resources, n.d.). “It is Nightingale who developed the coxcomb, a visual display to demonstrate how military deaths could be prevented” (Morin, 2010, p. 2). Her subsequent efforts to sanitize hospitals to save soldiers led to dramatic drops in patient mortality. Historical Overview Much of the original work on evidence-based practice (EBP) focuses on EBP in medicine.
Definitions galore Read varying definitions of evidence-based practice, evidence-informed decision-making, and other related terms. Relevance of evidence-informed decision-making to nursing practice Patients depend on nurses to do the best on their behalf. References. Population Health Promotion Model.