Healthy Public Policy – PLACE Research Lab

How can we work to equitably impact the health of our entire populations?

By supporting healthy public policy development, implementation and evaluation at various levels of governance we can equitably impact the health of the entire population. We can also better understand and address social and structural determinants of health through studies of healthy public policy.

Chronic Disease Prevention Survey

The Chronic Disease Prevention Survey measures the knowledge, attitudes and beliefs of policy influencers (decision makers in government, schools, media, and other large organizations) and the [...]

Benchmarking Food Environments

Good food and nutrition are essential to promoting the health of children and youth. Healthy eating promotes child growth and development, learning and even the prevention of diet-related chronic [...]

Scoping Population Health in Impact Assessment (ScopHIA)

Canada is an international leader in natural resource and large-scale infrastructure projects, which substantially contribute to the domestic economy.

Policy Intervention Ladder

The Intervention Ladder is a framework developed by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics to characterize the level of ‘intrusiveness’ of public health policy initiatives. Interventions at the bottom [...]

Family Access to Municipal Infrastructure for Leisure: Young children (FAMILY)

What factors affect use and access to community recreation facilities and outdoor spaces among families? Our Strathcona County: Recreation, Parks and Culture department partners wondered just [...]

Idea Readiness Tool

School communities are great incubators of new ideas, but launching a new idea is not always easy. The Idea Readiness Tool (IRT) can be used to help launch a new idea in a school community.

Policy Readiness Tool

The Policy Readiness Tool (PRT) is a self-administered tool that can be used to assess a community’s or organization’s readiness for policy change. The PRT includes a brief checklist that can be [...]

Alberta Policy Coalition for Chronic Disease Prevention (APCCP)

The Alberta Policy Coalition for Chronic Disease Prevention (APCCP; formerly the Alberta Policy Coalition for Cancer Prevention 2009-2011) represents a broad range of practitioners, [...]

Diffusion of Healthy Public Policies

Governments and other decision-making bodies rarely make policy decisions in isolation. Instead, they often learn from each other to develop and implement policies that are best suited for their [...]

POWER UP!

Policy Opportunity Windows – Engaging Research Uptake in Practice (POWER UP!) was a team of researchers, practitioners, and policy makers who worked together to share knowledge and evidence [...]