In light of Public Health Week recently, in this month’s Activate Health blog post, we talk about why #PublicHealthMatters more than ever for us, for you, and for everyone.
Here you’ll find downloadable infographics from our Decoding Public Health series.
Social justice and public health are intrinsically linked. Right now, the world is seeing how the need for improving social justice is reaching a boiling point. If we want to improve public health, we must engage in social justice now.
Each of us has the power to create meaningful change that our world urgently needs. Here are 8 ways you can support social justice and public health right away.
We keep writing about things related to public health, talking about the parts that make up the whole. But what is the whole? What the heck is public health anyway? Public health is a very broad and diverse field, consisting of many different areas. Well-known public health initiatives include vaccination programs, smoking cessation campaigns, hand …
It’s Kristy here, ED of the BCCDC Foundation, and for this month’s Decoding Public Health piece, I’d like to turn things to you, our readers, and get you thinking about a few things…and let’s see if we can start a conversation about health. I was invited to present at the Whole Human Summit recently, which …
You have probably heard of health promotion. You may know a little bit about it. You might think of it as a way to change behaviours through social marketing, for example. But, did you know the “discipline” of health promotion is actually about so much more?
