You say "to-may-to(e)" and I say "to-mah-to(e)" : S'entendre sur le fond : combler le fossé de la communication entre les chercheurs et les responsables de l'élaboration des politiques : rapport de l'ISPC de la recherche à la politique : améliorer la santé des jeunes Canadiens : atelier de travail tenu à Toronto, Ontario, les 19 et 20 février 2004

Researchers have access to a wealth of data that provides longitudinal and international comparisons of child and adolescent health.* Moreover, governments and funding agencies (such as the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research) have shown a commitment to fund researchers to use such data, while organizations like the Canadian Institute for Health [...] With this goal in mind, a group of CPHI- funded researchers working in the area From Research to Policy: of youth health recently participated in Workshop Objectives a workshop, “Improving the Health of 1. To improve understanding of the Canada’s Youth: From Research to Policy,” policy development process and sponsored by CPHI and the Canadian the importance of research in Adolescents at Risk Rese [...] For a full list of workshop participants, please see Appendix A. The workshop opened with researchers’ presentations of findings, progressed through several discussions on the workings of government and the nature of policy-making, and closed with researchers beginning to apply the knowledge and strategies they had learned to their own work. [...] CPHI’s mission 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. [...] In the future, and with the help of the Centre for Excellence in Youth Engagement, CAARRN hopes to involve youth more directly in adolescent health research, training them how to collect information about their issues to determine the root causes of health problems.