2012 Biennial Conference
The NB/PEI Public Health Association's 2012 conference was held on Oct. 25-26 of that year in Fredericton, NB with the theme "Place and Health." Please see below for some of the presentations from this excellent event!
Day 1: Thursday, Oct. 25
Plenary 1: Built Environment: A multisectoral health issue
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Plenary 2: Wicked Problems in the Built Environment: Of health inequalities and bedbugs
Presented by Valerie Morrison from the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy
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Concurrent Session 1: Vulnerable Populations
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Concurrent Session 2: Living in the Built Environment
Design Healthy Communities: The use of design to build our healthy community
Presented by Daniel Savard Older Driver Travel Behaviour and the Built Environment: A rural perspective Presented by Trevor Hanson |
Concurrent Session 3: New Directions
Presented by Sabrina Dosanjh & Neelam Parmar, Environmental Health Officers in British Columbia
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Presented by David Hartley and Anush Hansen from the Maine Rural Health Research Center, University of Southern Maine
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Day 2: Friday, Oct. 26
Discussion Breakfast: Enhancing Public Policy
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Plenary 3: Effective Planning and Design for Healthy Communities
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Plenary 4: Politics and Mayhem! Courting Healthy Communities in Small/Rural Municipalities
Presented by Sari Liem, Urban Planning Associate with Dillon Consulting Ltd.
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Plenary 5: Using Life Patterns Data to Explore how Built Environments Shape Human Behaviours and Health
Presented by Daniel Rainham, Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre at Dalhousie University
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Post-Conference Workshop: Design Healthy Communities: Use of design to build our healthy communities
Presented by David Savard from the New Brunswick Department of Environment and Local Government
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