Action Areas, Strengthen community action, Healthy Public Policy, Create Supportive Environments, Develop Personal Skills, Health Reform

Canada’s First Ministers established the Health Council of Canada in the 2003 Accord on Health Care Renewal and enhanced its role in the 2004 10-Year Plan to Strengthen Health Care. The Health Council reports on the progress of health care renewal, on the health status of Canadians, and on the health outcomes of our system. Its goal is to provide a system-wide perspective on health care reform for the Canadian public, with particular attention to accountability and transparency.

I What are generic drugs?
II Why are generic drugs an issue now?
III Six critical factors
IV How can we fix this?

Submitted by John G. Abbott, CEO, Health Council of Canada

I What are generic drugs?

A generic drug is a drug which is produced and distributed without patent protection. These drugs have the same medicinal ingredients as the original brand-name products, but may contain different non-medicinal ingredients.  

This survey, funded by Echo:  Improving Women’s Health in Ontario is part of a project called “Making Gender-Based and Equity-Assisting Frameworks Accessible: Knowledge Translation Strategies for Ontario's Healthcare Professionals”. Please take 15 minutes and fill it out.  

Kingston, Ontario

Deadline July 17, 2009

Program: Environmental Health

Position Summary:

To carry out a general public health inspection program in a designated area through enforcement of the Health Protection and Promotion Act, and the Regulation made thereunder and other relevant legislation. To provide services required under Part VIII of the Building Code and the Regulations made thereunder.

Qualifications:

London, Ontario

Deadline July 10, 2009

The South West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), is one of 14 local organizations that have been created in Ontario to plan, coordinate and fund local health services, including hospitals, community care access centres (CCACs), long-term care homes, community health centres (CHCs), community support service agencies, and mental health and addictions agencies. The office of the South West LHIN is located in London, Ontario.

The Interagency Youth Working Group (IYWG) is pleased to announce Youth InfoNet 57. This month's issue of the e-newsletter on youth reproductive health and HIV prevention features 10 program resources with Web links, and 17 journal article summaries on research from China, Ethiopia, Haiti, Jamaica, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. You can read the issue at http://www.youthwg.org/pubs/YouthInfoNet/YIN57.shtml.

Back issues of Youth InfoNet can be accessed at http://www.youthwg.org/pubs/YouthInfoNet/index.shtml.

The Senate Subcommittee on Population Health released its final report, which focuses on health disparities: A Healthy, Productive Canada: A Determinant Of Health Approach.

From the news release:

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" by Cheryl McLean, Editor, Robert Kelly, Associate Editor, is a contemporary research text which will be published by Detselig/Temeron Books in 2010. The book will feature topical research and dynamic examples demonstrating how the creative arts in many forms as inquiry and in action applied across disciplines can make a critical difference for individuals and society as a whole.

160 Elgin Street, 9th Floor

Address Locator 4809A

Ottawa, ON, K1A 0W9

General Inquiries: (613) 941-2672

Toll Free: 1-888-603-4178

Fax: (613) 954-1800
info@cihr-irsc.gc.ca