Program directory · Public Health Agency of Canada

Health Promotion

Department

Public Health Agency of Canada

Program code

BVP01 (PHAC)

Core responsibility

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention

In Departmental Plans

2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

This Program aims to reduce health inequities and improve the health of Canadians by empowering Canadians to protect and optimize their health, and by supporting pan-Canadian and community-based programs, population health interventions, innovation, intervention research, and knowledge development and exchange. The focus is on improving knowledge, skills and health behaviours at individual and population levels, addressing risk factors that lead to negative health outcomes, building protective factors to improve and maintain health and wellbeing and supporting the scaling up of successful interventions to affect systems change. The Program mobilizes knowledge to inform policy and program design, supports the evidence base to share effective approaches. The Program utilizes a health equity lens to support all Canadians while focusing on addressing systemic barriers and enhancing cultural safety to reduce health inequities. The Program supports initiatives towards healthy pregnancy, child and youth health, autism spectrum disorder, Indigenous early child development, healthy aging, older adults’ health, and dementia.

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

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. 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.