February 2012
12 posts
Federal Government - Healthy Eating Awareness and... →
Health Canada launched the Healthy Eating Awareness and Education Initiative in October 2010 with the Nutrition Facts Education Campaign. The Campaign focuses on improving consumers’ understanding of how to use the Nutrition Facts table and the % Daily Value to help them make healthier food choices.
The next phase will focus on promoting healthy eating by encouraging consumers to reduce...
CCNPPS > What's New? > The Use of Health Knowledge... →
This document is part of a project exploring issues surrounding relationships between not-for-profit organizations (NFPs) and the public health sector. More specifically, it deals with the way in which NFPs use health knowledge in their practices and the issues that this raises for public health professionals conducting or planning to engage in knowledge exchange processes with these...
immigrantchildren.ca » Blog Archive » The Drummond... →
The Commission rightfully relied on a careful examination of the literature in addition to its consultations. The literature findings, including Mr. Drummond’s own work, clearly sees the value of a system of high quality early learning and child care as an employment support and a support to integration of newcomers, but it failed to include child care as a recommendation to the people of...
Rise in life expectancy is marred by widening... →
A few things that inequality causes | Inequalities →
I thought this week I’d summarise four that particularly caught my eye. They variously cover crime, the family burden of caring for children with special needs, self-perception, and intergenerational mobility – which if nothing else, tells you that people with a lot of different interests are doing this kind of research…
ASSEMBLY OF FIRST NATIONS | Assembly of First... →
“Equity for our children is a first imperative and necessary to create safety, security and to ensure our children have the opportunity to succeed,” said AFN National Chief Shawn Atleo, who attended this morning’s hearing at the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa. “First Nations must have access to human rights mechanisms for basic services. We must end discrimination and...
The Need to Feel Connected - Neil Wagner - Health... →
But it’s not how rich or poor your social network actually is that seems to make the most difference, it’s how well-connected you think you are that seems to be the driving force. And according to this study, people need to feel connected to the strangers in their life so much that being ignored, even by a stranger, hurts.
Toronto News: Metcalf Foundation study: working... →
According to the report, the region’s working poor are almost twice as likely to be employed in sales and service jobs than the rest of the working-age population, and they work just as much. Almost three out of four are immigrants, and almost half are single or lone parents. More than half have some post-secondary education, about the same as the average Canadian worker. Almost 60 per cent are...
The poor in Toronto: They’re working but not... →
The Metcalf Foundation study, the first of its kind in Canada, documents the changing face of the Toronto area’s workforce. And it isn’t pretty: Even during times of economic prosperity, from 2000 to 2005, the number of working people unable to make ends meet grew by 42 per cent in the Toronto area. The exacerbation was especially pronounced in the city’s transit-starved east end. But rates grew...
Breastfeeding support: Toronto Public health aims... →
“The aim is to support mothers to breastfeed as long as they wish to,” said Olga Jovkovic, healthy families manager at TPH. She’s spearheading Toronto’s efforts to get the baby-friendly designation.
Designs on equality | NOW Magazine →
The operative phrase is “universal design,” and the idea is to cease and desist creating public infrastructure that privileges one particular group, whether it’s car drivers, the able-bodied or those with paycheques, and start envisioning people with parallel but not identical mobility and sociability needs: children, teens, seniors, new immigrants, those on low incomes, parents, those with...
Inequality, mobility, opportunity « Consider the... →
Nations with lower income inequality tend to have more intergenerational mobility, and the association is quite strong. There are concerns about the data. But suppose the data are accurate, and suitable for testing this link. What does the association depicted in this chart tell us about the magnitude of inequality’s impact?