Program directory · Department of Indigenous Services

Public Health and Disease Prevention

Department

Department of Indigenous Services

Program code

BYP01 (INDSC)

Core responsibility

Indigenous Well-Being and Self-Determination

In Departmental Plans

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

What it does

The Public Health and Disease Prevention Program provides First Nations and Inuit communities with support and flexibility to implement integrated and holistic health services. Aligning these program elements and leveraging their existing synergies helps support the transfer of these health services to First Nations and Inuit. Key activities supported by the program span across two elements: communicable disease control and management, and environmental public health. These are primarily delivered by First Nations on reserve and Inuit in Inuit Nunangat with funding and support from the Department.

The program supports communicable disease control and management on reserve and tuberculosis in Inuit Nunangat, and environmental public health services and project-based funding, including Climate Change and Health Adaptation, and the First Nations Environmental Contaminants Program.

Environmental public health provides an interdisciplinary approach to support First Nations to identify and develop options for managing perceived, actual and emerging hazards in the natural and built environments that can pose a risk to health. Activities include: developing guidance and tools for use by frontline officers that reflect the latest scientific and technical developments and contaminants of concern; supporting the occupational health and safety of frontline officers; supporting First Nations to identify, assess and respond to the health impacts of climate change, environmental contaminants and major industrial projects through three targeted funding programs; and supporting the department to meet its legislated requirements under the _Impact Assessment Act_.

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).

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.