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Veterans Affairs committee I will make a comment first. You're absolutely right. I think that is a hugely important issue, and it relates a bit to the point that was raised a bit earlier about being part of the workforce. I guess that's what we were trying to get at in the presentation. It's not so much t
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Claude Rocan
Veterans Affairs committee Age-friendly communities is something that in fact was built on to the age-friendly cities initiative that we did internationally. Drawing from the experience of that, this was something that was applied to the Canadian context and it was done through the federal-provincial-terri
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Claude Rocan
Veterans Affairs committee It is about looking for common indicators of an age-friendly community, some practical advice in terms of what makes an age-friendly community, and a way of advocating for certain changes and improvements to be made in a community's core characteristics to encourage it to be age-
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Claude Rocan
Veterans Affairs committee That's a very interesting question. I think that leads to the challenging issue of evaluation in the area of health promotion. We are definitely working very hard in that area. We put a number of resources into it. I think methodologies related to evaluation continue to evolve. S
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Claude Rocan
Veterans Affairs committee I would say it's more the latter. We are working very hard to encourage people to undertake healthy activities in a number of ways, as I've expressed, in a number of different levels. The area of health promotion is extremely broad. It does deal with individual behaviours, but it
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Claude Rocan
Veterans Affairs committee I'll ask John to speak to that, if you don't mind.
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Claude Rocan
Veterans Affairs committee I must say your mother is very lucky. Health care is a provincial jurisdiction, and we don't interfere in it directly. Perhaps Nancy can talk about some of our initiatives. As I mentioned in my presentation, we're mainly concerned with knowledge development. We're trying to sha
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Claude Rocan
Veterans Affairs committee Yes, and it's trying to work, as I mentioned, on the environmental conditions that people live in so that they can avoid crises later on. The preventive agenda is core to the work we do in the public health area. So it's exactly along those lines.
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Claude Rocan
Veterans Affairs committee Yes, it's in February; in fact, next week.
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Claude Rocan
Veterans Affairs committee Thank you for that opportunity. Yes, in fact, we are very highly regarded in the world for the work we've done. The work related to age-friendly cities is something on which we've worked very closely with the World Health Organization. It's been really pioneering work. Throug
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Claude Rocan
Veterans Affairs committee Yes, but I think it goes beyond that as well. I think it's education. I think it's knowledge about best practices: what sorts of interventions have been tried that have proven to be successful; learning from the experiences of other countries and jurisdictions; looking for part
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Claude Rocan
Veterans Affairs committee I just want to mention briefly that I agree with your point entirely. In fact, we are engaged in what we call a joint consortium on school health, dealing with the whole range of health behaviours in schools, including the issue of physical activity. Of course, from a federal g
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Claude Rocan
Veterans Affairs committee Thanks for the opportunity. There are some common risk factors that apply to a full range of chronic diseases, most of which have been mentioned here. They relate to physical activity, healthy eating, and smoking cessation, and of course healthy weight, which is related very oft
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Claude Rocan
Veterans Affairs committee In terms of first nations, we involve the first nations and Inuit health part of Health Canada. They're very involved in these issues. You mentioned diabetes. There's an aboriginal diabetes strategy that focuses on the needs of that population. It's their role to focus specifical
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Claude Rocan
Veterans Affairs committee I could ask Ms. Milroy-Swainson to talk about medical and professional staff.
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Claude Rocan