This guidance document encourages decision-making and action for pandemic preparedness and response that explicitly incorporate attention to structural and social determinants of health and address health inequities; and
Augments existing public health system resilience indicators to measure performance in addressing inequities and sustaining or enhancing equitable approaches now and in future outbreaks and pandemics.
The Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) management tool provides guidelines for treating CAP among adult patients in Manitoba. The tool integrates antimicrobial stewardship principles for optimizing antibiotic use by incorporating current evidence concerning the choice of drug, dose, delivery method, and duration of therapy for CAP.
Surveillance is one of the six core functions of public health in Canada1. Public health surveillance has been defined as, “the continuous and systematic collection, orderly consolidation and evaluation of pertinent data with prompt dissemination of results to those who need to know, particularly those who are in a position to take action”2. Surveillance is…
This fact sheet overviews H₅N₁ AI A – a rare, highly pathogenic avian influenza A virus that primarily affects birds but can also infect humans and other mammals, posing a significant public health risk.
As part of the NCCID and CWN Knowledge to Action Series, This case study shares the Nunavik Board of Health and Social Services (NBHSS) partnership with national and regional collaborators to pilot wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) as an innovative tool to enhance public health monitoring in remote Arctic communities.
As part of the NCCID and CWN Knowledge to Action Series, this case example overviews how OPH successfully integrated WBS data into its routine decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic, providing the public and policymakers with clear, timely, and transparent information on community viral trends.
As part of the NCCID and CWN Knowledge to Action Series, the BCCDC case example highlights how British Columbia integrated wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) into its public health system to support pandemic response and beyond.
This segment of the Knowledge to Action series examines how public health dashboards can improve situational awareness, facilitate timely decision-making, and foster public trust.
This feature in the Knowledge to Action series explores the ethical foundations and governance considerations of wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) in public health.
This document overviews the Wastewater-Based Surveillance (WBS) for Public Health Knowledge-to-Action Series.
This series is intended for public health personnel working across all levels, disciplines and jurisdictions. Some of the resources may be appropriate for sharing with community partners to strengthen learning and collaboration for building a strong monitoring and assessment system in support of community health.
This infogrpahic overviews the resistant bacteria, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureas (MRSA). It answers questions about symptoms, treatment and prevention.
This fact sheet overviews the resistant bacteria, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureas (MRSA). MRSA is commonly associated with hospital settings (called health-care associated MRSA or HA-MRSA).