Finance committee  Normally flu vaccine is given around the month of October because that's the typical start of flu season, so the longer you delay getting the vaccine, the more chances are that more people will contract influenza. Yes, there's always concern when we have delays, whether it's in

Finance committee  Our organization was not directly consulted. I think one of the challenges that's being pointed out is that all of these things are interrelated. It reflects back on my colleague's comment that if you cut one place without perhaps thoroughly investigating the ripple effect it mig

Finance committee  Absolutely, because one of the social determinants of health for individuals is literacy. CPHA has been working in the area of literacy for over nine years and right now is actually in the process of running a blue panel on health literacy in Canada. So there's literacy and the

Finance committee  That's an excellent question, and I think the answer is that we're lagging behind. This is mainly because our attention is always focused downstream, once people have a disease and how we can cure them. That's the immediate necessity. The investments upstream are very difficult t

Finance committee  I think that depends on how our infectious diseases and other diseases emerge. As you've mentioned, we now have an HPV vaccine for cervical cancer. That's only the start of the investigations into vaccines for other types of cancers, and that's being actively pursued. We have a n

Finance committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity to appear in front of the committee. The Canadian Public Health Association is a registered charity, a non-profit association, which is membership-based. We are not a professional association. We were established by an act of Parliament in