Advocacy
Creating Supportive Environments
The 2011-2020 Pan Canadian Hypertension Framework outlines the recent history of the effort to prevent and control hypertension, current efforts and what is required in the future. Highlights:
Overarching recommendations:
- Build healthy public policy
- Reorient/redesign the health services delivery system
- Build partnerships to create supportive environments and evolve the health care system
- Strengthen community action
- Develop personal skills for better self‐management
- Improve decision support
- Optimize information systems
Download the 2011-2020 Pan Canadian Hypertension Framework (.pdf)
Position Statements
Hypertension
Food & Nutrition
- A Call to Action to Buy and Sell Healthy Foods and Beverages – Executive Summary
- A Call to Action to Buy and Sell Healthy Foods and Beverages – Consensus Recommendations
- A Call for Action to Implement a Healthy Food Policy Agenda – Consensus Statement
- A National Model for Defining Healthy and Unhealthy Foods and Beverages – Consensus Statement
- Food Tax and Subsidy Policies for the Promotion of Healthy Diets – Policy Consensus Statement
- Increasing Food and Nutrition Research, Monitoring and Evaluation – Call to Action
- Minimizing the influence of commercial interests in healthy public food policies – Call to Action
- Unhealthy diets are the leading risk to Canadians’ health and well-being. Now is the time to act
Marketing to Kids
- Restricting Food Marketing to Kids as a Policy Intervention for the Prevention of Chronic Disease Risk Factors – PowerPoint
- Restricting Marketing of Unhealthy Foods and Beverages to Children and Youth in Canada – Executive Summary
- Restricting Marketing of Unhealthy Foods and Beverages to Children and Youth in Canada – Policy Consensus Statement