Fact Sheet: Healthy Living: Public - Private Partnerships for Healthier Living
(TORONTO) – Dr. Colin Carrie, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health, today announced on behalf of the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, an investment to support health care providers who treat Canadians for cardiovascular disease (CVD).
“The vision of this project is to give health care providers better information and tools to improve patient care, and to support cardiovascular disease patients with tools to help them improve their own health
,” said Parliamentary Secretary Carrie. “This is another example of an innovative partnership between the Government of Canada, the private and not-for-profit sectors to take an integrated approach to preventing and managing chronic diseases.
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The Canadian Cardiovascular Harmonized National Guidelines Endeavour (C-CHANGE) is a two-phase project. In phase one, eight guideline organizations joined in 2011 to produce Canada’s first harmonized CVD prevention and management guidelines for use in primary care. Phase two is a partnership of the federal government and the private and not-for-profit sectors. Together they will implement C-CHANGE as a nationally coordinated, harmonized and integrated strategy for the prevention and treatment of CVD by addressing risks such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity and diabetes.
“The C-CHANGE initiative will help improve public health practices in the field of cardiovascular health throughout Canada
,” said Dr. Peter Liu, National Director, C-CHANGE.
“Elsevier Canada is pleased to be a partner in this initiative and to offer our significant expertise in building web-based, education tools
,” said Marc Thibodeau, Senior Vice President, Elsevier Canada.
Phase two activities include developing an online intervention program for clinicians treating patients with CVD. The online Clinical Resource Centre will support health care providers in their efforts to use the harmonized guideline in the practice setting. There will also be a Patient Self-Management Tool to encourage CVD patients to implement their own risk reduction behaviours.
The Government of Canada is committed to working collaboratively across all sectors to promote programs and activities that support healthy living, physical activity and chronic disease prevention. For more information on physical activity, please visit http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/hp-ps/hl-mvs/pa-ap/index-eng.php
For more information, please contact:
Public Health Agency of Canada
Media Relations
(613) 941-8189
Health Canada
Cailin Rodgers
Office of the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq
Federal Minister of Health
(613) 957-0200
