Program directory · Health Canada

Healthy People and Communities

Department

Health Canada

Program code

BVG22 (H)

Core responsibility

Health Care Systems

In Departmental Plans

2023-24 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

Health Canada recognizes the importance of maintaining equitable access to effective health care services for the diverse people and communities across Canada. Health disparities exist in Canada, and relate mostly to disease or health conditions, socio-economic status, Indigenous, racial, and ethnic identity, sex and gender, sexual orientation, official language, and geographic location, but also due to lack of people-centred and innovative approaches in the provision of care. The Healthy People and Communities Program supports the development of inclusive, innovative and people-centred health care solutions to improve the health of priority populations. These populations have a greater risk of experiencing a health care issue or facing barriers in access to health care services adapted to their distinct health needs. Health Canada collaborates with health partner organizations and communities to implement targeted interventions designed to test solutions, supplement health care systems and address population needs. These groups work directly with health care practitioners, decision makers and health organizations to develop, refine and share specialized knowledge, skills and tools to support the implementation and use of knowledge to improve health care services for priority populations. Efforts are also undertaken to sustain, scale and spread best practices across health care systems. By funding initiatives within the Healthy People and Communities Program, the Government of Canada is working to reduce the differences in health outcomes across people and communities in Canada.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2023-24. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Employees (FTEs)

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.