May 2011 - Posts

• WHO releases new series of short courses on violence and injury prevention

  Violence and injury prevention short courses provide a complete training resource for facilitators around the world. Each course addresses a specific injury or violence area and is designed to be delivered over 2-5 days. These "trainings in a box" can be downloaded from our website free of charge: http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/capacitybuilding/courses/en/index.html Four courses are available for download at the moment: ·        Child maltreatment prevention ·        Intimate partner and sexual violence prevention ·        Trauma care system planning and management ·        Trauma care quality improvement Each short course follows the same modular format and contains: a facilitator's guide to orient the facilitator to the material; training modules which include PowerPoint presentations and notes for facilitators; and supporting resources such as handouts and case studies. The courses have been developed on the basis of a wide range of WHO materials and additional courses will be developed in the future. To download course materials, visit http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/capacitybuilding/courses/en/index.html. Posted May 30 2011, 08:08 AM by Jennifer Heatley with no comments

• World Health Assembly adopts resolution targeted at saving the lives of children from injury

  Today, the Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly adopted a resolution on child injury prevention, the first ever on the topic. The resolution, spurred by the WHO/UNICEF World report on child injury prevention, provides a platform to support action on preventing child injuries, which are the leading cause of death for children over the age of 5 years. More than 830,000 children die each year from road traffic crashes, drowning, burns, falls and poisoning.   The resolution urges Member States to prioritize the prevention of child injuries; implement the recommendations of the World report on child injury prevention; and develop and put into practice a multisectoral policy and plan of action with realistic targets. It calls upon the WHO Director-General to collaborate with Member States in establishing science-based policies to prevent child injury; to encourage research, build capacity, and mobilize resources for child injury prevention; and to continue providing technical support to countries to develop and implement child injury prevention measures and strengthen emergency and rehabilitation services. The resolution also calls upon the WHO Director-General to establish a network with organizations of the United Nations system, international development partners and nongovernmental organizations to ensure effective coordination and implementation of activities for child injury prevention.  In adopting the resolution, around 20 Member States voiced their strong support for the initiative, many making note of the toll that injuries take on the lives of children in their countries. The delegate from Bangladesh noted that child injury is a "national catastrophe", while the delegate from the United States stated that child injury prevention should be part of each country's plan for child and adolescent health and that child injury prevention should be integrated within child survival programming. The adoption of this historic resolution by the World Health Assembly is a landmark accomplishment, as it firmly frames child injury as a major child survival issue and highlights the need to expand child survival programming and financing streams to include child injury prevention. RELATED LINKS World report on child injury prevention http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/child/injury/world_report/en/index.html Posted May 24 2011, 10:12 AM by Jennifer Heatley with no comments

• Notice of ACIP Annual General Meeting

  ACIP's annual general meeting will be held Thursday, June 9 at 3:00 pm Atlantic, 3:30 pm Newfoundland via teleconference. Supporting materials and forms for proxy voting will be sent out in advance. Posted May 24 2011, 08:32 AM by Jennifer Heatley with no comments

• CHNET-Works – New upcoming “Fireside Chats” on health

  Hosting weekly Fireside Chats: FREE pan-Canadian discussions For population health professionals and stakeholder sectors No registration fees, no travel costs or green house gas emissions. Sharing leading edge research and application | Supporting discussions, mobilization and networking Participants join in via simultaneous Telephone and Internet 'conferences'. A backup PowerPoint Presentation is available on the day of the 'chat' We hope you will join in the Fireside chats and share the information with your colleagues. We would love to have a picture of your group showing participation in a Fireside Chat - to post on www.chnet-works.ca (you'll be anonymous and 'famous')  More Fireside Chat audio recordings have been posted for 2010 and 2011 NEW Section below re: 'FYI' Some Resources of Value 'How to register' click here View Full List of Upcoming Fireside Chats Date/Time Check your Time Zone Fireside Chat Title (click on the title for more info) May 18, 2:00-3:30 PM Eastern Time From Cradle to Spirit World – Cultural Context of Identifying and Supporting Aboriginal People with Disabilities: FASD and Alzheimer Debbie Dedam-Montour, Executive Director, National Indian & Inuit Community Health Representatives Organization (NIICHRO) Robin Shawanoo, Alzheimer Society's First Nations First Link Program, Oneida First Nation of the Thames ________________________________ May19,1:00-2:30 PM Eastern Time Racial Discrimination + Employment insecurity = Poor Health Yogendra Shakya, Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services and Dalla Lana School of Public Health ________________________________ May 26, 1:00-2:00 PM Eastern Time Public Health and Land Use Planning Kimberly Perrotta BES, MHSc Clean Air Partnership (CAP) ________________________________ June 8 2:00-3:00 PM Eastern Time Linking Transportation, Air Quality, Climate Change and Health Impacts Dr. Michael Brauer School of Population and Public Health The University of British Columbia ________________________________ June 15, 1:00-2:00 PM Eastern Time Urban Landscapes: health or health inequalities Elizabeth Kristjansson Faculty of Social Sciences, School of Psychology, University of Ottawa ________________________________ June 23, 1:00-2:00 PM Eastern Time The Rich and the Rest of Us Armine Yalnizyan, Senior Economist Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives ________________________________ June 28, 1:00-2:00 PM Eastern Time The Registry of Methods and Tools: Accessing knowledge translation resources to improve public health practice Jaime Brown, PhD, Research Coordinator, NCCMT and Sunita Chera, Research Assistant, NCCMT More Fireside Chats to be posted Partner with CHNET-Works!: All Fireside Chats are in partnership with organizations in Population Health and Stakeholders. CHNET-Works!  operates on a cost-recovery or cost-sharing basis. We are now scheduling Fireside Chats for Sept - Dec 2011. Host a Fireside Chat Group in your community! 1. Invite colleagues in your organization and networks. 2. Book a conference room (teleconference and internet access) in your organization or community. 3. Use the Fireside Chat to support discussions and mobilization with your colleagues. FYI: Some Resources of Value: "Integrating Social Determinants of Health and Health Equity into Canadian Public Health Practice: Environmental Scan 2010" by the NCC-DH: http://www.nccdh.ca/supportfiles/Environmental-Scan-2010.pdf Could you survive for a week on a Food Hamper Diet? The Food Providers Networking Group and Kingston Community Roundtable on Poverty Reduction invite you to follow the Do the Math participants throughout the week as they blog about their experiences.  www.dothemathkingston.com/index.html Posted May 24 2011, 08:29 AM by Jennifer Heatley with no comments

• Canadian Child Safety Good Practice Guide Released

  The Canadian Edition of the Child Safety Good Practice Guide provides the first seminal, comprehensive document in the country from which decision-makers, practitioners and legislators can base their work and recommendations. It is designed to enable Canadian injury prevention practitioners to examine Canadian strategy options for unintentional child injury, move away from what has ‘always been done’ and move toward good investments - strategies that are known to work or have the greatest probability of success.   This document is based on the 2006 European Child Safety Good Practice Guide, which was launched by the European Child Safety Alliance (the Alliance) in order to provide guidance on proven, effective injury prevention strategies.  Safe Kids Canada formally partnered with the Alliance to bring the Guide to Canada. Evidence-based good practices are provided in this guide for those considering uptake, transfer and implementation of specific strategies or interventions.  In particular, evidence "at-a-glance” tables include referenced evidence statements and transfer / implementation points on 11 child safety topics, and 17 case studies demonstrate ‘real world’ success in at least one Canadian context. To see the online resource, please visit the link below. English http://www.safekidscanada.ca/Professionals/Tools-and-Resources/Guide/Good-Practice-Guide.aspx French http://www.safekidscanada.ca/Professionnels/Outils-et-ressources/Guide/Guide-bonnes-pratiques.aspx Posted May 24 2011, 08:19 AM by Jennifer Heatley with no comments