Canada Values Health

Welcome

Welcome to CanadaValuesHealth – a website hosted by the Health Council of Canada where YOU can share your ideas about what changes make sense for strengthening our publicly-funded health care system.

Innovations and best practices are put into action throughout the country every day, but unless people know about them and adapt them to their own communities, the result can be a collection of pilot projects instead of whole health system improvement.

Exactly what are "best practices"?

Best Practices are interventions, programs/services, strategies, or policies which have demonstrated desired changes through the use of appropriate well documented research or evaluation methodologies. They have the ability to be replicated, and the potential to be adapted and transferred. A best practice is one that is most suitable given the available evidence and particular situation or context.
In the context of population health / health promotion, such practices are used to demonstrate what works for enhancing the health status and health-related outcomes of individuals and communities, and to accumulate and apply knowledge about how and why they work in different situations and contexts. 

Taken from the Public Health Agency of Canada's Canadian Best Practices Portal for Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention website...

http://cbpp-pcpe.phac-aspc.gc.ca/index-eng.html

We’re looking for approaches and solutions to real health system issues that can impact Canadians in the best possible ways. Click through to the Health Council of Canada’s virtual message board now.There you can discover and share your own ideas about what IS working and what COULD work better to improve the health of Canadians and keep our system strong, now and in the future.