Our PlanH Local Government Leaders Speaker Series continues Nov 17 with Anti-Racism Policies, exploring the Columbia Shuswap Regional District’s experience adopting an anti-racism policy.
The deadline for applications to the Active School Travel Pilot Program has been extended to December 14, 2021 to reflect the current provincial state of emergency.
If the goal of healthy public policy is to create improved conditions which in turn improve population and community health, then as a whole, healthy public policies must also be equitable and serve to reverse health inequities.
Rather than directly addressing health, healthy public policies make changes to living conditions that impact health—such as housing, transportation and income—in order to improve a community’s health and well-being, while often positively impacting other issues directly within local government purview.