Healthy Eating, Physical Activity and Healthy Weights Guidance Document
Publisher/Sponsor:
Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion and Sport
This is one of a series of Guidance Documents meant to assist boards of health to identify local issues and implement standards for public health programs.
It provides background information relevant to healthy eating, physical activity and healthy weights, including the significance and burden related to these behaviours, a brief overview of provincial policy direction and strategies, as well as supporting evidence and rationale. It also addresses the value of mental well-being and social determinants of health considerations in the public health approach to healthy eating, physical activity and healthy weights.
There is a statement of each Requirement pertaining to healthy eating, physical activity and healthy weights; a further explanation of the Requirement based on evidence, innovations and suggested priorities; suggested actions (organized into various categories of situational assessment, policy, program/social marketing and evaluation and monitoring); and some examples of how this has been done in Ontario or other jurisdictions with enough detail and guidance to adopt or adapt these examples and incorporate them into local health promotion plans.
The document identifies and examines areas of integration with other program standard requirements. This section acknowledges elements and opportunities for multi-level partnerships, including suggested roles at each level (i.e., provincial, municipal/boards of health, community agencies and others) of public health governance. In addition, areas of integration with other strategies and programs such as the Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy and Healthy Babies Healthy Children are identified.
Finally, it lists the key tools and resources that may assist efforts to plan, implement and evaluate interventions directed at healthy eating, physical activity and healthy weights.
Publication Date:
2010
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