Population & Public Health

PHSA's Population and Public Health Program

From 2005 to present, PHSA’s Population and Public Health (PPH) Program has supported PHSA agencies, BC health authorities, government and others by leading and facilitating responses to emerging population and public health issues. It focuses on knowledge generation, synthesis, transfer and exchange to inform and improve chronic disease policy and practice in BC.

This website provides information on the PPH Program’s activities as follows:

• Collaborative Model: providing leadership towards identifying, developing, implementing and evaluating collaborative primary and primordial prevention initiatives. 
• Core Programs: implementing the Ministry of Health's core programs across our agencies and overseeing cross-program functions provincially
• Food Security: providing provincial support and leadership to increase food security in BC
• Healthy Built Environment: coordinating provincial, cross-sector activities for healthier, more liveable communities
• Surveillance and Health Indicator Reports: identifying population and public health indicators, gathering and synthesizing health-related evidence and data, and producing reports for PPH initiatives as well as for other projects.

PHSA is also a member of the provincial Primary Health Care Council and coordinates initiatives and projects related to Primary Health Care and Shared Care.

NOTE: Under each topic area (hyperlink), reports and publications are available.