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Écrit dans lequel sont définis les paramètres d’une intervention; il peut s’agir d’une intervention simple, d’un plan, d’un programme d’interventions ou encore d’une fonction de santé publique ou de l’Institut. Le cadre de référence expose généralement, en tout ou en partie, les fondements, buts, cibles, principes directeurs, composantes (ressources, activités, processus, modalités de gestion), normes de qualité et critères d’évaluation de l’intervention.

Read more about Municipal Action to Create Environments Conducive to Health and Quality of Life

Municipal Action to Create Environments Conducive to Health and Quality of Life

  • Julie Lévesque
  • Mathieu-Joël Gervais
  • Éric Robitaille
  • Marie-Ève Couture-Ménard

In Québec and around the world, growing urbanization of territories and current demographic, socioeconomic, cultural, environmental and health issues are having a significant impact on the health and quality of life of populations. 

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Read more about Actions to optimize the use and design of outdoor recreational facilities

Actions to optimize the use and design of outdoor recreational facilities

  • Éric Robitaille
  • Mélanie Beaudoin
  • Zoé Brabant
  • Michelle Gagné
  • Mathieu Gauthier
  • Katerine Girard
  • Vicky Huppé
  • Andréane Melançon
  • Marie-Claude Roberge

This issue of OPUS focuses on outdoor recreational facilities, specifically facilities that are freely accessible to the public, are not reserved for members of an organization, enable the practice of recreational or sports activities and meet the needs of residents. Recreational areas such as splash parks (with the exception of swimming pools and wading pools), sports fields, walking areas…

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Read more about The use of the concept of vulnerability in public health

The use of the concept of vulnerability in public health

  • Julie St-Pierre
  • Annie Gauthier
  • Romane Pollet

Vulnerability is a concept that remains poorly defined and widely debated. Its many applications in different contexts and disciplines are constantly transforming its contours and redefining its form. Thus, vulnerability can be seen as immanent to all forms of life, or it can be reduced to a potential risk of being injured or affected in a well-defined context (e.g., the risk of suffering from…

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Read more about Public Policy Analysis Tool for Rapid Decision Making in Public Health

Public Policy Analysis Tool for Rapid Decision Making in Public Health

  • Chantal Blouin
  • Annie Gauthier
  • Marie-Claude Roberge

The National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy (NCCHPP) has collaborated with the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ) to develop a public policy analysis tool adapted to rapid decision-making contexts. This tool is particularly relevant in the context of a health emergency, where decisions must be made at an accelerated pace. The NCCHPP is making this tool…

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Read more about Child and Adolescent Development in a School-Based Health Promotion and Prevention Perspective

Child and Adolescent Development in a School-Based Health Promotion and Prevention Perspective

  • Caroline Tessier
  • Liane Comeau

A framework for integrated health promotion and prevention actions based on a competency approach

The framework for integrated promotion and prevention actions in schools seeks to promote the development of competencies that contribute to academic success and are common to a range of subjects related to health and well-being. It is aimed at counteracting the tendency to…

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Read more about Framework of Values to Support Ethical Analysis of Public Health Actions

Framework of Values to Support Ethical Analysis of Public Health Actions

  • France Filiatrault
  • Michel Désy
  • Bruno Leclerc
  • Comité d'éthique de santé publique

The literature in public health ethics and other key documents exhibit a wide variety of values that offer many potential guides for assessing or orienting action. Among these many values, which ones are most relevant for conducting ethical analysis of public health actions? And are they valid for all public health interventions, or only some? How are these values defined?

This…

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Read more about Integrated West Nile Virus Surveillance

Integrated West Nile Virus Surveillance

  • Anne-Marie Lowe
  • Najwa Ouhoummane
  • Christian Back
  • Germain Lebel
  • François Milord
  • Christian Therrien
  • Stéphane Lair
  • Isabelle Picard

A new government intervention plan was adopted in early 2013 to protect public health against West Nile virus (WNV) infection, since WNV infection epidemiological activity had resumed in Québec in 2011 and 2012. This new plan establishes the strategy to be pursued for the years 2013 to 2015. The primary objective of the strategy adopted by public health authorities is to prevent the…

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Read more about Occupational Health Competency Framework for Public Health in Québec

Occupational Health Competency Framework for Public Health in Québec

  • Gisèle Fontaine
  • Cora Brahimi
  • Marie Fortier

The underlying impetus of the occupational health framework is a desire to enact change. This tool aims to address the modernization challenges outlined in the Programme national de santé publique (MSSS, 2008) [Québec's updated public health program] and the Plan stratégique du Réseau de santé publique en santé au travail (MSSS, 2010) [the strategic plan of Québec's public health network in…

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Read more about Competency framework for scientific processes underlying the cross cutting functions of the Institut national de santé publique du Québec

Competency framework for scientific processes underlying the cross cutting functions of the Institut national de santé publique du Québec

  • Doina Malai
  • Cora Brahimi
  • Céline Farley
  • Francine Gravel

The Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ) is a public health expertise and reference centre in Québec that engages in research, monitoring, training, knowledge translation, public policy development, and the production of scientific advisory reports. These are considered the organization's cross-cutting functions. Mastery of the scientific processes underlying these functions…

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