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Archives – Quotes
Canada’s Health Ministers created the Public Health Network – a mechanism that is [a] new way for different levels of government and experts to work together to improve public health in Canada. It assists not only in the sharing of knowledge and the development of best practices, but also in terms of policy development.
[“What makes a safe, healthy community” remarks by David Butler Jones, Chief Public Health Officer for Canada and Federal Co-Chair of the Council for the Pan-Canadian Public Health Network at the Strengthening Canadian Communities: National Showcase on Community Safety, Health and Well-being, March 5, 2007, Winnipeg, MB]
Much of [the Public Health Network’s] effectiveness comes from its connectedness. The Network’s Council reports to the Deputy Ministers of Health, [a]nd then on to the Council of Ministers. It’s a forum for people to come together, to raise issues, to lay plans and make connections.
[“What makes a safe, healthy community” remarks by David Butler Jones, Chief Public Health Officer for Canada and Federal Co-Chair of the Council for the Pan-Canadian Public Health Network at the Strengthening Canadian Communities: National Showcase on Community Safety, Health and Well-being, March 5, 2007, Winnipeg, MB]
[The Public Health Network] doesn’t just include government, but experts in the field that can advise and guide on concrete work that needs to be done. Where once public health issues had a tough time cracking agendas at the Ministers’ table, they’re now regular agenda items.
[“What makes a safe, healthy community” remarks by Dr. David Butler Jones, Chief Public Health Officer for Canada and Federal Co-Chair of the Council for the Pan-Canadian Public Health Network at the Strengthening Canadian Communities: National Showcase on Community Safety, Health and Well-being, March 5, 2007, Winnipeg, MB]
The next big challenge, which is beginning to be addressed through the Pan-Canadian Public Health Network, is to bring together community-based clinicians, public health authorities, viral laboratories and all levels of government to safeguard the health of Canadians against emerging infectious diseases. Clinical suspicion, early recognition and diagnosis, reporting suspicious cases to the public health system is a vital and concrete way of protecting not only the health of the individual, but also the health of the community at large.
[Dr. David Butler-Jones, Canada’s public health system: building support for front-line physicians” in CMAJ, January 2, 2007, 176(1)]