Seven years later : Inventory of population health policy since the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, 1996-2003

The mission of the Canadian Population Health Initiative is twofold: to foster a better understanding of factors that affect the health of individuals and communities, and to contribute to the development of policies that reduce inequities and improve the health and well-being of Canadians. [...] It is clear that the Commission’s Over the course of the winter of 2002-2003, CPHI held three preferred mechanism to this end is nation-to-nation negotiations for roundtables on the theme of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health. [...] Tables 3 to 10, which are The purpose of this inventory is to document provincial/territorial included in separate sections for each jurisdiction, provide more and federal government action to address three determinants of detailed information on housing, health and education programs.∗* Aboriginal health as recommended in the Royal Commission on This inventory builds on the chapter on the health [...] It therefore does not present data on the people in CPHI’s report Improving the Health of Canadians by burden of ill health, nor does it attempt to evaluate the effectiveness providing an in-depth and comprehensive review of developments in of policies to improve health. [...] The first is on health Given the size of the report and the limits to reviewing progress since and healing, the second is on housing and the third is on education.