It was produced by the Canadian Public Health Association and funded by Health Canada. In the vein of the National Forum on Health and the Federal, Provincial and Territorial Advisory Committee on Population Health work, a growing interest and capacity has been emerging across Canada. Among other initiatives, various research centres have been precursors and advocates for the emergence of the population health approach. The work of the Population Health Program has created a new awareness among health policymakers as to the preponderant influence of economic and other social determinants of health. This site provides in-depth, innovative and integrated policy research.
Publications are accessible online.
The site provides free tabular data on aspects of Canadians' health, including determinants, status and the use of resources. To use EBDM one must first assess what constitutes evidence, both in relation to health-enhancing interventions and to organizational or policy level decision making. One also needs to explore the availability and accessibility of reliable information and knowledge that identifies how interventions, practices and programs affect health outcomes. An EBDM framework also examines the length of time the health system takes to adopt existing information about the interventions that work, and their degree of success. A population health approach recognizes that any analysis of the health of the population must extend beyond an assessment of traditional health status indicators like death, disease and disability.