Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance
This toolkit is for anyone who wants to advance health policy in their community or encourage change at the local level.
https://www.ocdpa.ca/sites/default/files/publications/OCDPAHCToolkit_Final_ENG.pdf
Berkeley Media Studies Group
This webpage provides an overview of media advocacy, examples of case studies, and additional resources such as the Berkeley Media Studies Group’s (BMSG) keynote address, which describes their approach to media advocacy. The focus is on how to use media advocacy to improve news coverage of health issues.
Public Health Ontario
This resource provides information on how to measure the success of campaigns by developing appropriate outcome objectives and indicators.
http://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/eRepository/Health_Communication_Outcomes_2011.pdf
Public Health Ontario
This presentation deck outlines the different steps of the health communication campaign planning model and illustrates how you can apply these steps to your own situation. The resource also provides a 12-item checklist to help you develop persuasive health communication messages.
http://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/eRepository/Developing_health_communication_campaigns_2012.pdf
McMaster University
This website provides resources and tools to help public health use the best evidence in practice. Users can find evidence in the online data base or use the consultation services to apply evidence in practice.
Canadian Healthy Communities Network
The strategies and tools put forward in this guide focus on actions designed to help draft and amend public policy to promote health at the local level.
National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy
This briefing note presents a structured process based on an analytical framework that reflects a public health perspective, while at the same time integrating other concerns that matter in the context of policy making.
National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy.
Author: Patrick Fafard (University of Ottawa)
Policy makers are often challenged when producing public policy to consider the role of evidence, especially scientific evidence. Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN) Research Fellow Patrick Fafard explores this challenge in the publication Evidence and Healthy Public Policy: Insights from Health and Political Sciences.
World Cancer Research Fund International (WCRF)
Published in 2009, this report examines how interventions at different levels of society can help to prevent cancer by creating environments where healthy choices are easier for the people of the world to make.
National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools
An online registry of methods and tools to assist with knowledge translation in public health. Among other things, this database can help practitioners support innovation, engage with community partners and make evidence informed policy decisions.
