Health committee  Thank you very much. That's another very important question--

Health committee  Okay, thank you. That is a really important question. In terms of the role of the federal government in this area, we've put our emphasis on the investment in identifying the best practices in communities and in helping communities test ways and innovations for disease preventi

Health committee  Those statistics come from survey data. The Canadian school health behaviour survey is one really important source of data, along with work that Statistics Canada does to look at the patterns of behaviour among our children in the after-school time period. Of course, there are

Health committee  That's a really good question. I don't have data on the impact of those more physically active video games, but I'm wondering if anyone-- Philip does. Go right ahead.

Health committee  Thank you very much for that really important question. I'll reiterate once again that the work of the Mental Health Commission of Canada is so vitally important to actions that we will take in the years to come to promote positive mental health and to prevent mental illness. Th

Health committee  Sure. We are doing a number of intervention research studies in communities across the country. Under our innovation strategy at the Public Health Agency, one of our priorities is to test out in communities the types of things that will work to reduce obesity. The Public Health

Health committee  On the work the government is doing, curbing childhood obesity was named a priority of federal, provincial, and territorial health ministers. Last week when health ministers met they endorsed a progress report and future action. So the kinds of things we're working on collectiv

Health committee  Thank you very much for that question. First, as you know, the government has put resources into the Mental Health Commission of Canada to ensure that we're paying attention, in a pan-Canadian way, to very important issues around stigma and improving the dialogue about mental h

Health committee  I'm sorry. I'm going to wrap this right up. Our oldest citizens can benefit from health-promotion activities. Let me finish with an acknowledgement that, first and foremost, we must recognize that public health is not just a health issue. Promotion and prevention involve all of

Health committee  It was my pleasure.

Health committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I'm very pleased to be here today to discuss the importance of health promotion, and to describe some of what we've achieved in this area. I want to say that your interest in health promotion is very timely, given that 2011 marks the 25th anniv

Health committee  There are two things that come to my mind when you raise that, Dr. Duncan. One is that we're making progress through the Joint Consortium for School Health to bring the health and education needs together from a policy and program perspective. It's not delivering a national nutri

Health committee  Our first step is the national neurological study. We are working with the health charities—the raising of awareness is an important thing from their point of view. I'm sure you've heard this if you've spoken to them about Alzheimer's and other neurological diseases. One of the

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  The databases always provide sex-specific information. So they do look at what's different for men and women. We think about cancer rates and lung cancer rates. We know that lung cancer rates in men, although they were rising very rapidly, have now stabilized, whereas we're still