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Early child development
This program priority will help optimize early child development by providing the education and support needed to ensure that expectant mothers are healthy before and during pregnancy, that the birth outcomes are positive, and that the attachment relationship between parent and child has been firmly established during the first year of life.
Guidelines
National Guidelines Clearing House
Effects of early nutritional interventions on the development of atopic disease in infants and children: the role of maternal dietary restriction, breastfeeding, timing of introduction of complementary foods, and hydrolyzed formulas. (PDF file)
Cochrane reviews
Group-based parent-training programmes for improving emotional and behavioural adjustment in children from birth to three years old
Other reviews, syntheses and best practices
Data and statistics
Agency / government sites
- Aboriginal Canada Portal. Health and Social Services
- Centres of Excellence for Children's Well-being -Public Health Agency of Canada
Evidence Informed Decision-Making (EIDM)
The EIDM (Evidence-Informed Decision-Making) program priority will help provide transparency, enhance accountability and may also help make better use of resources.
Guidelines
Cochrane reviews
Other reviews, syntheses and best practices
- Canadian Best Practices Portal for Health Promotion & Chronic Disease Prevention (Public Health Agency of Canada)
- Effective Public Health Practice Project (Public Health Research Education & Development Program - [PHRED] City of Hamilton)
- Evidence-based Practice for Public Health (Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School)
- Evidence-Informed Public Health (National Collaborating Centre for Methods & Tools)
- Health Evidence Bulletins Wales (National Public Health Service for Wales, UK)
- Health Evidence Canada (Canadian Institute of Health Research)
- Towards Evidence-Informed Practice (Ontario Public Health Association)
Data and statistics
- Health Reports (Statistics Canada)
- World Health Organization Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) - Health and health-related statistical information from the WHO Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy
Agency / government sites
- The Campbell Collaboration - An international research network that produces review of the effects of social interventions.
- Cochrane Public Health Group - A Review group of the Cochrane Collaboration
- The Community Guide, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US
Tobacco
This program priority will set out and implement new strategies for the prevention and cessation of smoking, and for the protection of others from the effects of second-hand smoke.
Guidelines
- How to stop smoking in pregnancy and following childbirth
- Integrating smoking cessation into daily nursing practice. Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) 2007.
Cochrane reviews
- Tobacco cessation interventions for young people 2010
- Healthcare financing systems for increasing the use of tobacco dependence treatment 2009
- Interventions for smokeless tobacco use cessation 2009
- Interventions for tobacco cessation in the dental setting 2009
- Interventions to reduce harm from continued tobacco use 2009
- Legislative smoking bans for reducing secondhand smoke exposure, smoking prevalence and tobacco consumption 2010
Other reviews, syntheses and best practices
Data and statistics
- FAS Online: Tobacco Statistics and Reports.
Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service, on tobacco world markets, tobacco auctions, and more.
Agency / government sites
- Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) Tobacco
- AHRQ Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence
Resources including pocket guides, tool kits, guidelines, and quick reference guides for healthcare providers serving tobacco dependent individuals.
- CDC Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS)
Coordinates strategic efforts aimed at preventing tobacco use among youth, promoting smoking cessation among youth and adults, protecting non-smokers from environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), and eliminating tobacco-related health disparities.
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