Links/Resources 

Inter-professional Connectedness

https://scalar.usc.edu/works/c2c-digital-magazine-fall-2018--winter-2019/digital-content-curation

This resource can be used to understand content curation by digital means (Shapee, 2019).

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4103576/

Use this resource to gain insight into healthcare with the use of social media (Ventola, 2014)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObKbG85162E

Use this resource to understand social media (Professor Walters, 2020).

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Provincial and Federal Legislation 

Canada Health Act 

 Use this resource to gain insight into the different components of health care in Canada (Canada Health Act, 1985) 

Health Protection and Promotion Act 

Use this resource to understand how public health educators in Ontario contribute to health promotion (Health Protection and Promotion Act, 1990) 

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Canadian Public Health Association 

Use this resource to understand the importance of global health (Canadian Public Health Association, 2022) 

You can navigate through the site menu bar to gain insight and information on upcoming events, practicum opportunities, job posting and professional interactions in the field of public health (Canadian Public Health Association, 2022)

Regulated Health Professions Act 

Use this resource to gain insight into the different colleges regulated health professionals in Ontario belong to, and the acts they abide by (Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991) 

Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care 

Use this resource to understand the procedures of health care in Ontario (Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, 2022)

You can use this resource to search for a doctor, and/or book a Covid-19 vaccine if needed (Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, 2022)

Public Health Ontario    

Navigate through the site menu to get information on chronic diseases, Public Health Ontario's responsibilities as an organization, lab services in Ontario, Covid-19 updates, Public Health Ontario's clients, and information about upcoming events (Public Health Ontario, 2022)

Public Health Agency of Canada 

Use this resource to understand the role of this federal body in the health system (Public Health Agency of Canada, 2022).You can use this page to retrieve covid-19 updates and information on various health topics such as pregnancy and obesity (Public Health Agency of Canada, 2022).  

Health Canada 

Use this resource to understand who Health Canada is, and the role they play in the health system as a federal body (Health Canada, 2022) 

Find information about nutrition, healthy living, and environmental health on this webpage (Health Canada, 2022)

What is Health? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8WuTUeZf 

The concept of a healthy person is explained in this video (Allversity, 2013) Comparisons between global health, public health, community health, and personal health are made for your general knowledge (Allversity, 2013)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UOljxJvil4

Use this resource to understand aspects of social health, mental health and physical health  (Florida PASS Program, 2015)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.11.034

 Understand health in terms of  biological processes and physiology with this resource (López-Otín & Kromer, 2021).

https://doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2018.30.292.15436

Use this resource to acknowledge criticisms to the meaning of health proposed by the World Health Organization (Oleribe et al., 2018)

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https://www.improvingpopulationhealth.org/blog/what-is-population-health.html

Use this resource to understand the essentials of population health (University of Wisconsin, n.d.)

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https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12889-019-7884-9.pdf

Use this resource to understand oppression and privilege in health (Nixon, 2019)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2quVLcJVBk

Use this resource to understand components of the Ottawa Charter and the meaning of health promotion (Let's Learn Public Health, 2017)

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Determinants of Health

https://doi.org/10.1111/jnu.12584

Use this resource to understand how clinical practice incorporating the social determinants of health is associated with behaviors, perceptions, and knowledge amongst nurses (Phillips et al., 2020).

https://www.cpha.ca/what-are-social-determinants-health

This resource can be used to understand the meaning of the social determinants of health, where examples of these determinants are provided for your general knowledge (Canadian Public health Association, 2019)  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSguDQRjZv0

This resource uses a framework consisting of structural determinants of health and intermediary determinants of health to analyze the topic of social determinants of health for public knowledge (Appuhamy, 2020)

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Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

This resource describes different determinants of health and outlines how these determinants impact health (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 2020)

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https://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/pro/programs/publichealth/oph_standards/docs/protocols_guidelines/Health_Equity_Guideline_2018_en.pdf

Use this resource to understand which social determinants of health are linked to health equity at the provincial level (Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, 2018).  

https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2019.304964

Use this resource to gain insight into the connectivity between health disparities and the social determinants of health (Palmer et al., 2019).

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Program Planning

https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/health-promotion/2/program-models/precede-proceed#:~:text=The%20PRECEDE%2DPROCEED%20model%20is,and%20focused%20public%20health%20program

Use this resource to understand the components of the PRECEDE-PROCEED framework (Rural Health Information Hub, 2011)

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Multiple Spheres Influencing Health

https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00014

Use this resource to understand air pollution and its toxic health effects (Manisalidis et al., 2020). 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RijQpsWEdrE

This video briefly describes positive and negative health outcomes due to social interactions (Whats Up Dude, 2017)

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/about/social-ecologicalmodel.html

Use this resource to understand the socio-ecological model of health (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, 2022)

https://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/MPHModules/SB/BehavioralChangeTheories/BehavioralChangeTheories2.html

Use this resource to understand the health belief model (Boston University School of Public Health, 2019)

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https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-021-11338-y

Read this qualitative study to understand diabetes program implementation influenced by factors of the socio-ecological model of health (Bamuya et al., 2021)

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Chronic Diseases in Canada

https://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/pro/programs/cdpm/#:~:text=are%20also%20available.,Ontario's%20Framework,two%20or%20more%20chronic%20conditions

Use this resource to understand chronic disease rates in Ontario, and Ontario’s Chronic Disease Prevention and Management Framework (Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, 2018)

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/chronic-diseases/prevalence-canadian-adults-infographic-2019.html

Use this resource to gain insight into Canadian chronic disease prevalence (Government of Canada, 2019)

https://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/Diseases-and-Conditions/Chronic-Diseases-and-Conditions

This resource outlines different chronic diseases and provides short descriptions of what the disease is (Public Health Ontario, 2022) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap1FXfy91d4

Use this resource to understand chronic disease prevention utilizing the BETTER approach (Science Animated, 2018)

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5328595/ 

Use this resource to understand chronic disease in relation to the social determinants of health (Cockerham et al., 2017).

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https://www.cmaj.ca/content/193/8/E270

Use this resource to understand multimorbidity and chronic disease prevalence in Ontario (Steffler et al., 2021)

Indigenous Health

https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1626810177053/1626810219482

Use this resource to understand Canadian healthcare for Indigenous populations (Government of Canada, 2021). 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=195&v=QeLwBDdbEJc&feature=emb_logo 

Healthcare access challenges with respect to Indigenous populations are presented in this video (Demystifying Medicine, 2018).  

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6104323/

Use this resource to understand Indigenous health from the outlook of a settler physician (Jaworsky, 2018)

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https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-624-x/2013001/article/11763-eng.htm 

​Use this resource to gain insight into statistics of Indigenous health (Statistics Canada, 2015)

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https://www.ontario.ca/page/indigenous-healing-and-wellness-strategy

Use this resource to understand the Indigenous Healing and Wellness Strategy (Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services, 2021)

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https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2012.300752

Use this resource to understand climate change and  the health of Indigenous populations (Ford, 2012)

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Health of Vulnerable Populations

https://cahs-acss.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Access_to_Oral_Care_FINAL_REPORT_EN.pdf

Use this resource to understand the relationship between vulnerable populations and oral health (Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, 2014)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7hT5c_-8I8

Watch this video to understand disease in context of vulnerable populations (Florida PASS Program, 2017). 

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.997.9345&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Use this resource to understand the issue of health and its relationship to homelessness (Frankish et al., 2005)

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4787293/

Use this resource to understand vulnerable populations and cardiovascular disease (Yeates et al., 2016)

Future Directions 

https://www.ictc-ctic.ca/future-healthcare-paved-good-intentions-new-study/

Use this resource to understand digital health in Canada's future (Carney, 2021)

https://blog.orionhealth.com/the-future-of-ontario-healthcare/

Use this resource to understand care delivery and organization through the introduction of Ontario Health Teams (Orion health, 2020).

https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.171045

Use this resource to gain insight into Canadian health-care quality, and how Canadian healthcare can be improved (Dhalla & Tepper, 2018).

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