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Strategic Outcome: Canada is able to promote health, reduce health inequalities, and prevent and mitigate disease and injury

Program Activity: Health Promotion

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Aboriginal Head Start in Urban and Northern Communities (AHSUNC)

Start date: 1995-96

End date: Ongoing

Description: This program supports locally designed and controlled early childhood development intervention strategies for off-reserve Aboriginal children and their families. The program focuses on health promotion, education and school readiness, aboriginal culture and language development, parental involvement, nutrition and social support.

Expected results: To provide opportunities for the healthy development of Aboriginal pre-school children in urban and northern settings, including the development of positive self-esteem and a desire for learning, and opportunities to develop successfully as young people. The program helps to reduce health disparities experienced by vulnerable children and their families living in conditions of risk by increasing community capacity, helping participants make healthy choices and promoting multi-sectoral partnerships.

 3 year Transfer Payment Program Plan Summary

Strategic Outcome: Canada is able to promote health, reduce health inequalities, and prevent and mitigate disease and injury

Program Activity: Health Promotion

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Community Action Program for Children (CAPC)

Start date: 1993-94

End date: Ongoing

Description: CAPC provides funding to community-based groups and coalitions to develop and deliver comprehensive, culturally appropriate prevention and early intervention programs to promote the health and social development of children (0–6 years) and their families facing conditions of risk.

Expected results: To enhance community capacity through a population health approach and to respond to the health and development needs of young children and their families who are facing conditions of risk. To contribute to and improve health and social outcomes for young children and parents/caregivers facing conditions of risk, and to continue partnering with multiple sectors in the community.

 3 year Transfer Payment Program Plan Summary

Strategic Outcome: Canada is able to promote health, reduce health inequalities, and prevent and mitigate disease and injury

Program Activity: Health Promotion

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP)

Start date: 1994-95

End date: Ongoing

Description: The Agency provides funding to community-based groups and coalitions to develop and deliver comprehensive, culturally appropriate prevention and early-intervention programs which promote the health and social development of pregnant women, infants and their families facing conditions of risk.

Expected results: To enhance community capacity through a population health approach to respond to the health and development needs of pregnant women and their infants who are facing conditions of risk. To contribute to and improve health outcomes for pregnant women, infants and their families, and to continue partnering with multiple sectors in the community.

 3 year Transfer Payment Program Plan Summary

Strategic Outcome: Canada is able to promote health, reduce health inequalities, and prevent and mitigate disease and injury

Program Activity: Health Promotion

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Innovation Strategy* (IS)
* previously known as the Population Health Fund (PHF)

Start date: 2009-10

End date: Ongoing

Description: The IS is a federal grants and contributions initiative designed to foster action on the key determinants that affect the health of Canadians. The IS (for a short time earlier in its development referred to as the Innovations and Learning Strategy) was established based on the parameters of the Population Health Fund to strengthen the development, implementation and rigorous evaluation of innovative interventions and initiatives to reduce health inequalities. It focuses on priority areas where there are unmet needs in how to effectively protect and improve the health of Canadians. An important component is the exchange and application of practical information on what works to address the underlying causes of health inequalities and on effective ways to deal with public health issues of a complex nature. Recipients include non-governmental organizations and networks; public health stakeholders at the national, provincial, territorial and community levels; and other organizations that have the capacity to develop, implement and evaluate innovative policies and activities.

Expected results: To increase effective action to reduce health inequalities and their underlying causes. Performance measures include the extent of design and implementation of new promising interventions; the extent of exchange of new knowledge of effective interventions to take action on priority heath issues; and the increase in the number of intersectoral collaborations to address specific determinants of health or combinations of determinants.

 3 year Transfer Payment Program Plan Summary

Strategic Outcome: Canada is able to promote health, reduce health inequalities, and prevent and mitigate disease and injury

Program Activities: Disease and Injury Prevention and Mitigation; Surveillance and Population Health Assessment; Science and Technology for Public Health

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Federal Initiative to Address HIV/AIDS in Canada (FI)

Start date: January 2005

End date: Ongoing

Description: Contributions towards the Federal Initiative to Address HIV/AIDS in Canada.

Expected results: Projects funded at the national and regional levels will result in increased knowledge and awareness of the nature of HIV and AIDS and ways to address the disease; increased individual and organizational capacity to address HIV and AIDS; and enhanced engagement and collaboration on approaches to address HIV and AIDS.

 3 year Transfer Payment Program Plan Summary

Strategic Outcome: Canada is able to promote health, reduce health inequalities, and prevent and mitigate disease and injury

Program Activity: Public Health Preparedness and Capacity

Name of Transfer Payment Program: National Collaborating Centres (NCCs) for Public Health

Start date: 2004-05

End date: Ongoing

Description: Contributions to persons and agencies to support health promotion projects in community health resource development, training, skill development and research. The focus of the National Collaborating Centres for Public Health program is to strengthen public health capacity, translate health knowledge and promote and support the use of knowledge and evidence by public health practitioners in Canada in collaboration with provincial, territorial and local governments, academia, public health practitioners and non-governmental organizations.

Expected results: Increased opportunities for collaboration and networking between health portfolio partners, NCCs and other external organizations; increased knowledge translation activities—knowledge synthesis, translation and exchange—and the application of scan and research findings by researchers and knowledge users; knowledge gap identification—gaps are identified, acting as catalysts for new research; increased availability of knowledge for evidence-based decision making in public health with consequent increased use of evidence to inform public health programs, policies and practices; and improved public health programs and policies.

 3 year Transfer Payment Program Plan Summary

Strategic Outcome: Canada is able to promote health, reduce health inequalities, and prevent and mitigate disease and injury

Program Activity: Health Promotion

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Healthy Living Fund (HLF)

Start date: June 2005

End date: Ongoing

Description: The HLF supports healthy living activities with community, regional, national and international impacts by funding and engaging the voluntary sector, and by building partnerships between and collaborating with governments, non-governmental organizations and other agencies.

Expected results: Funds will be used to build public health capacity and develop supportive environments for physical activity and healthy eating. Projects will help to strengthen the evidence base, contribute to knowledge development and exchange and help in the formation of health promotion activities.

 3 year Transfer Payment Program Plan Summary

Strategic Outcome: Canada is able to promote health, reduce health inequalities, and prevent and mitigate disease and injury

Program Activities: Disease and Injury Prevention and Mitigation; Surveillance and Population Health Assessment

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Canadian Diabetes Strategy (non-Aboriginal elements) (CDS)

Start date: 2005-06

End date: Ongoing

Description: The CDS develops information for distribution to Canadians who are at higher risk of developing diabetes (e.g., family history, high blood pressure, high cholesterol in blood, certain ethnic groups), especially those who are overweight, obese or pre-diabetic; and supports the prevention of complications among those with diabetes.

Expected results: Improved capacity to apply best practices and clinical practice guidelines to better screen, educate and counsel at-risk Canadians; healthier public policies in organizations across sectors and jurisdictions to address high-risk populations; early detection and management of diabetes; increased organizational capacity for policy, program, services and research development; increased awareness of diabetes risks, complications and prevention strategies for high-risk populations; and, increased knowledge among high-risk populations of skills and behaviours necessary to prevent diabetes and its complications.

 3 year Transfer Payment Program Plan Summary

Strategic Outcome: Canada is able to promote health, reduce health inequalities, and prevent and mitigate disease and injury

Program Activity: Disease and Injury Prevention and Mitigation

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative (CHVI)

Start date: 2007-2008

End date: 2012-2013

Description: The  CHVI is a collaborative undertaking between the Government of Canada and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to contribute to the global effort to develop a safe, effective, affordable and globally accessible HIV vaccine. This collaboration builds on the Government of Canada's commitment to a comprehensive, long-term approach to address prevention technologies. Participating federal departments and agencies are the Canadian International Development Agency, the Public Health Agency of Canada, Industry Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and Health Canada. The CHVI's overall objectives are to: strengthen HIV vaccine discovery and social research capacity; strengthen clinical trial capacity and networks, particularly in low and middle income countries (LMICs); strengthen policy and regulatory approaches for HIV vaccines and promote the community and social aspects of HIV vaccine research and delivery; and ensure horizontal collaboration within the CHVI and with domestic and international stakeholders.

Expected results:

• Increased readiness and capacity in Canada and LMICs
• Increased and improved collaboration and networking
• Strengthened contribution to global efforts to accelerate the development of safe effective, affordable and globally accessible HIV vaccines

 3 year Transfer Payment Program Plan Summary

Strategic Outcome: Canada is able to promote health, reduce health inequalities, and prevent and mitigate disease and injury

Program Activity: Disease and Injury Prevention and Mitigation

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Hepatitis C Undertaking

Start date: April 2000

End date: March 31, 2020

Description: Payments provided every five years to provinces and territories to improve access to health care and treatment services to persons infected with hepatitis C through the blood system. The final payment will occur in 2014‑15.

Expected results: Improved access to current emerging antiviral drug therapies, other relevant drug therapies, immunization and health care services for the treatment of hepatitis C infection and related medical conditions.

 3 year Transfer Payment Program Plan Summary