Highlights

• This report presents data on the prescription of medications for attention deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity (ADHD) taken from the Québec Integrated Chronic Disease Surveillance System (QICDSS). Estimates were obtained from longitudinal monitoring between April 1, 2000, and March 31, 2020, for all individuals aged 24 years and younger who were eligible for Québec’s public prescription drug insurance plan (PPDIP).
• The results show a steady increase in the prescription of ADHD medications over time. In 2019–2020, 56,080 Quebecers (7.7%) aged from 1 to 24 years enrolled in the PPDIP received at least one prescription for ADHD medication.
• The percentage of ADHD medication prescribing differs by the sex and age of the person....

Apparus sur le marché québécois il y a plus d’une décennie, les produits de vapotage ont connu une augmentation fulgurante de leur usage chez les adolescents et les jeunes adultes. Devant l’émergence de ce nouveau mode de consommation de nicotine, le ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux a donné le mandat à l’Institut de la statistique du Québec de réaliser l’Enquête québécoise sur le tabac et les produits de vapotage 2020. Il s’agit de la première enquête transversale québécoise portant sur les produits de vapotage à être effectuée auprès de personnes âgées de 15 ans et plus, une seconde édition étant prévue en 2023. Bien que l’enquête ait porté plus largement sur l’usage des produits du tabac (cigarettes, cigarillo, cigare, pipe, chicha, tabac à mâcher, tabac chauffé), l’...

This report represents a guidance document on the roles of public health in population mental health and wellness promotion (PMHWP) across Canada. In the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic, which has brought mental health to the forefront of countries’ responses to the pandemic, building the workforce and organizational capacity in public health for PMHWP is even more relevant now than ever before.

This document was developed by the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy (NCCHPP), and builds on conversations which occurred at a Forum on Population Mental Health and Wellness Promotion (the Forum), in February-March of 2018. The Forum was organized by the six National Collaborating Centres for Public Health (NCCs), in collaboration with four partner...

The wellbeing approaches studied, with their reference frameworks and associated wellbeing indicators, are policy instruments for the entire government apparatus. Although these approaches have only recently been introduced and have been the subject of few evaluations, they appear promising. They are based on a vision of social, human, economic and environmental progress and rely on measurements that complement those of economic growth and GDP. Their adoption is intended to support what matters most to people, namely their wellbeing. 

The main features common to the wellbeing approaches of these central governments are:

• They are intended to be whole-of-government approaches, i.e., they involve the entire government apparatus, as well as other actors (departments,...