Infographic: Achieving Healthier Weights in Canada’s Communities

Population Health Intervention Research

Phase I: Design, implement and adopt (~12 months)

• Innovative Population Health Interventions
• Address underlying factors
• 37 Projects funded
• Focus on children, youth and families to achieve healthy weights
• Supportive workplaces and schools
• Healthy conditions
• For rural, remote, Northern and underserved communities to achieve healthy weights
• The design, development, adaptation and implementation of innovative population health interventions including the development of partnerships

Phase II: Expanded implementation, partnerships and evaluation (up to 4 years)

• Populations
• Communities in rural, urban, remote and Northern locations
• 101 communities
• 12 provinces and territories
• Over 33,000 individuals
• 9800 professionals, practitioners and service providers, 400 policy makers and over 12,000 members of the general public
• 11 projects funded
• Interventions
• Food security
• Increased access to healthy food choices, preparation & preservation for individuals living in higher-risk communities
• School & family-based initiatives
• Improved coordination of policies, services & infrastructure to create supportive environments
• Northern Community-based initiatives
• Focus on youth leadership, improved healthy food and activity options with culturally relevant activities
• Supportive Social and Physical environments
• Increased awareness of Aboriginal cultures and integration of existing local resources
• Improved Knowledge of healthy behaviours
• Partners
• Intersectoral partners such as:
  • Grocery Stores
  • Inuit Community Governments
  • School boards
  • Municipalities
  • Wellness groups
• 262 organizations
  • Ministry of Parks & Recreation
  • Natural Resources & Education
  • Provincial, territorial, municipal or local level
• Evaluations
  • Intervention outcomes and processes measured across multiple sites
• Expanded implementation and delivery of interventions with partners, including evaluation of the population health intervention in several sites

Phase III: scale up, knowledge mobilization and policy change (up to 3 years)

• Scale up
• Increase the reach and impact of successful interventions to benefit more people and to foster sustainable policy and program development
• Leverage existing partnerships and program
• Integrate into existing systems and policy
• New opportunities
• Engage policy makers
• Increase the likelihood that the results of the program will be applied
• Increase the reach and impact of successful interventions to benefit more people and to foster sustainable policy and program development