Health committee  Thank you for the opportunity, Madam Chair, to address the standing committee with regard to the Public Health Agency of Canada's role in addressing diabetes and other chronic diseases in Canada. Our role is threefold: to obtain data to better understand the patterns and trends

Health committee  The department responsible for addressing your question is Health Canada. Dr. Aziz, do you want to address that?

Health committee  I'll turn to Jennette Toews for our assessment on that issue.

Health committee  Yes, the pan-Canadian health inequalities reporting initiative has two dimensions. One is an online data tool that looks at more than 70 indicators of health inequality—health behaviours, as well as broader determinants of health. That was made available last year. It's possible

Health committee  It is a tool that's available, certainly, for planners and health professionals. It is also user-friendly in the sense that it is quite an easy tool to get basic information with several clicks, as far as looking at a condition is concerned or looking at a subpopulation of intere

Health committee  This is a tool intended to understand at a baseline level the large range of health inequalities in Canada. As I said, diabetes is one of those conditions that can be.... Data from a variety of sources is gathered in that tool. As far as tools for Canadians are concerned, there a

Health committee  I can begin. What I can say is that over the last number of years, starting in 2010, there has been a real shift towards a more integrated approach for chronic disease prevention. Valerie spoke to that earlier. A number of changes were under way in that time period. We have seen

Health committee  On each of the dimensions of the report, there has been significant progress made. As I mentioned, from the perspective of strategy development, we use an integrated strategy for healthy living and prevention of chronic disease. That is articulated. As far as the coordination o

Health committee  Perhaps I can start and then turn to Alfred. On the first question about performance measures, we have strengthened our approach to performance measures. We look across our programming from an integrated perspective. A performance measurement framework is in place. It looks at b

Health committee  I'll turn to Jennette for that.

Health committee  We do know that the awareness of diabetes and its risks is an important consideration, and our chief public health officer is looking at the issue of stigma across a range of diseases, because we do see this, not only for diabetes, but a lot of other conditions, both chronic as w

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Mr. Chair and honourable members, thank you for the opportunity to address this committee regarding the role of the Public Health Agency of Canada on sport-related concussions. As mentioned, I'm pleased to be joined by my colleague, Andrew MacKenzie, who is the Director of the Be

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Similar to my colleague at Sport Canada, we do see the value of awareness-types of events like this as a way to galvanize people and bring attention to the new tools and the suite of resources available, both for the parents of the children and youth, but also for what we call th

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Thanks for that, Andrew. Just to add to that in regard to the notion of putting all the information in one place, that was not the case a number of years ago. This is information to go onto the concussion page on Canada.ca in terms of what is a concussion, understanding the new

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  First, I will say that the training is now accredited by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Other accreditation is in progress with other professional organizations, so it's good for CME credits. Second, with respect to the tracking, that is something we're workin