Register for the meeting now
3341.0
Invited Session: Approach to Developing a Collaborative, Comprehensive Public Health Strategy
Invited Session: Approach to Developing a Collaborative, Comprehensive Public Health Strategy
Monday, November 4, 2013: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Oral
A look into the development of the report, Strategic Actions to Address Childhood Obesity, an initiative of the collaborative Chronic Disease Prevention Work Group in support of provincial efforts to address healthy weights, specifically, childhood obesity. The collaborative is a compilation of public health professional associations and societies representing a broad spectrum of professionals and disciplines within the public and community health sectors. This report outlines five recommended government courses of action to address childhood obesity within Ontario: (1) create supportive physical environments that promote healthy behaviours, (2) Enhance training and education of all professionals working with children (3) enhance public education, skill building and awareness with a specific focus on children (4) ensure public reporting of key health promotion and prevention performance indicators, and (5) build capacity within the public health sector to adequately address childhood obesity.
Session Objectives: (1) Demonstrate how diverse organizations can come together to create a shared set of recommendations to combat a particular public health concern.
(2) Describe the process of assembling and coordinating the efforts of a collaborative group of professionals with complementary public health expertise.
(3) Discuss the strategic actions recommended by the collaborative Chronic Disease Prevention Work Group to combat childhood obesity.
Moderator:
Organizer:
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
See more of: Community Health Planning and Policy Development