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Physician input into environmental assessments of industrial projects
https://policybase.cma.ca/en/permalink/policy11232
- Date
- 2014-08-20
- Topics
- Health care and patient safety
- Population health/ health equity/ public health
- Resolution
- GC14-36
- The Canadian Medical Association calls on bodies that conduct environmental assessments of industrial projects to seek input from physicians.
- Policy Type
- Policy resolution
- Date
- 2014-08-20
- Resolution
- GC14-36
- The Canadian Medical Association calls on bodies that conduct environmental assessments of industrial projects to seek input from physicians.
- Text
- The Canadian Medical Association calls on bodies that conduct environmental assessments of industrial projects to seek input from physicians.
Efforts to protect arable land from non-agricultural development
https://policybase.cma.ca/en/permalink/policy11233
- Date
- 2014-08-20
- Topics
- Health care and patient safety
- Population health/ health equity/ public health
- Resolution
- GC14-37
- The Canadian Medical Association supports efforts to protect arable land from non-agricultural development.
- Policy Type
- Policy resolution
- Date
- 2014-08-20
- Resolution
- GC14-37
- The Canadian Medical Association supports efforts to protect arable land from non-agricultural development.
- Text
- The Canadian Medical Association supports efforts to protect arable land from non-agricultural development.
Food security for all Canadians
https://policybase.cma.ca/en/permalink/policy11234
- Date
- 2014-08-20
- Topics
- Health care and patient safety
- Population health/ health equity/ public health
- Resolution
- GC14-27
- The Canadian Medical Association supports targeted population health programs aimed at improving food security for all Canadians.
- Policy Type
- Policy resolution
- Date
- 2014-08-20
- Resolution
- GC14-27
- The Canadian Medical Association supports targeted population health programs aimed at improving food security for all Canadians.
- Text
- The Canadian Medical Association supports targeted population health programs aimed at improving food security for all Canadians.
Health care from the first trimester of pregnancy
https://policybase.cma.ca/en/permalink/policy11236
- Date
- 2014-08-20
- Topics
- Health care and patient safety
- Population health/ health equity/ public health
- Resolution
- GC14-28
- The Canadian Medical Association believes that all provinces and territories should have a legal obligation to provide health care from the first trimester of pregnancy.
- Policy Type
- Policy resolution
- Date
- 2014-08-20
- Resolution
- GC14-28
- The Canadian Medical Association believes that all provinces and territories should have a legal obligation to provide health care from the first trimester of pregnancy.
- Text
- The Canadian Medical Association believes that all provinces and territories should have a legal obligation to provide health care from the first trimester of pregnancy.
Routine nutrition risk screening of all hospitalized patients
https://policybase.cma.ca/en/permalink/policy11237
- Date
- 2014-08-20
- Topics
- Health care and patient safety
- Population health/ health equity/ public health
- Resolution
- GC14-29
- The Canadian Medical Association supports the establishment of routine nutrition risk screening of all hospitalized patients to help prevent, detect and treat malnutrition.
- Policy Type
- Policy resolution
- Date
- 2014-08-20
- Resolution
- GC14-29
- The Canadian Medical Association supports the establishment of routine nutrition risk screening of all hospitalized patients to help prevent, detect and treat malnutrition.
- Text
- The Canadian Medical Association supports the establishment of routine nutrition risk screening of all hospitalized patients to help prevent, detect and treat malnutrition.
Revising Canada’s Food Guide
https://policybase.cma.ca/en/permalink/policy11242
- Date
- 2014-08-20
- Topics
- Health care and patient safety
- Population health/ health equity/ public health
- Resolution
- GC14-32
- The Canadian Medical Association will advocate for the revision of Canada’s Food Guide.
- Policy Type
- Policy resolution
- Date
- 2014-08-20
- Resolution
- GC14-32
- The Canadian Medical Association will advocate for the revision of Canada’s Food Guide.
- Text
- The Canadian Medical Association will advocate for the revision of Canada’s Food Guide.
The Built Environment and Health
https://policybase.cma.ca/en/permalink/policy11258
- Date
- 2014-08-20
- Topics
- Population health/ health equity/ public health
- Health care and patient safety
- Resolution
- GC14-59
- The Canadian Medical Association will develop an action plan to promote the recommendations outlined in its policy, The Built Environment and Health.
- Policy Type
- Policy resolution
- Date
- 2014-08-20
- Resolution
- GC14-59
- The Canadian Medical Association will develop an action plan to promote the recommendations outlined in its policy, The Built Environment and Health.
- Text
- The Canadian Medical Association will develop an action plan to promote the recommendations outlined in its policy, The Built Environment and Health.
Climate action
https://policybase.cma.ca/en/permalink/policy11259
- Date
- 2014-08-20
- Topics
- Population health/ health equity/ public health
- Health care and patient safety
- Resolution
- GC14-60
- The Canadian Medical Association will collaborate with other disciplines to ensure that the mutual benefits to health and the economy of climate action are more broadly understood and incorporated into policy.
- Policy Type
- Policy resolution
- Date
- 2014-08-20
- Resolution
- GC14-60
- The Canadian Medical Association will collaborate with other disciplines to ensure that the mutual benefits to health and the economy of climate action are more broadly understood and incorporated into policy.
- Text
- The Canadian Medical Association will collaborate with other disciplines to ensure that the mutual benefits to health and the economy of climate action are more broadly understood and incorporated into policy.
Coal-fired electricity generation
https://policybase.cma.ca/en/permalink/policy11260
- Date
- 2014-08-20
- Topics
- Health care and patient safety
- Population health/ health equity/ public health
- Resolution
- GC14-61
- The Canadian Medical Association supports government efforts to phase out coal-fired electricity generation within a 10-year time limit.
- Policy Type
- Policy resolution
- Date
- 2014-08-20
- Resolution
- GC14-61
- The Canadian Medical Association supports government efforts to phase out coal-fired electricity generation within a 10-year time limit.
- Text
- The Canadian Medical Association supports government efforts to phase out coal-fired electricity generation within a 10-year time limit.
Canadian Medical Association Submission to Health Canada's Notice of proposed order to amend the schedule to the Tobacco Act
https://policybase.cma.ca/en/permalink/policy11434
- Date
- 2014-11-10
- Topics
- Health care and patient safety
- Population health/ health equity/ public health
1 document
- Policy Type
- Parliamentary submission
- Date
- 2014-11-10
- Text
- The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) is pleased to provide this submission in response to Health Canada's Notice of proposed order to amend the schedule to the Tobacco Act1, from October 14, 2014, on the restriction of the use of additives. Canada's physicians have been working for decades toward the goal of a smoke-free Canada. The CMA issued its first public warning concerning the hazards of tobacco in 1954 and has continued to advocate for the strongest possible measures to control its use. Background Flavoured tobacco products include candy or fruit flavoured products including cigarillos, water pipe tobacco, smokeless tobacco and blunt wraps. They come in flavours that are appealing to youth such as chocolate, mint, cherry, peach, or strawberry. Flavouring makes the tobacco products more palatable to youth and young adult smokers because they have a lower tolerance for irritation and an underdeveloped taste for tobacco smoke.2 Menthol is a long standing and common flavour used in cigarettes and is used to reduce the harshness of cigarette smoke. It is the most popular flavour among youth. Almost three out of 10 Canadian youth who smoked cigarettes in the last 30 days (29 per cent) reported smoking menthol cigarettes.3 Tobacco Use and Youth While tobacco use has declined in Canada we must remain vigilant in our efforts to reduce smoking rates. Today 16 per cent of Canadians continue to smoke on a regular basis and physicians are particularly concerned about the smoking prevalence among young adults and youth with 20 per cent of those aged 20-24, and 11 per cent of youth aged 15-19 currently smoking on a regular basis. 4 Flavoured tobacco products, with their appeal to young Canadians are a major threat to the health and well-being of our youth. A recent report, Flavoured Tobacco Use: Evidence from Canadian Youth based on the 2012/13 Youth Smoking Survey, shows that young people are using flavoured tobacco products at high levels. Results show that 50 per cent of high school students in Canada who used tobacco products in the previous 30 days used flavoured tobacco products.5 Previous Amendments Regarding Flavouring Agents The CMA supported efforts of the federal government in 2009 to limit the addition of flavouring agents to tobacco products through the 2010 Act to Amend the Tobacco Act. But the Act did not cover all tobacco products and it excluded menthol as a flavouring agent. Manufacturers have been able to modify the weight and packaging of their products to technically comply with the Act while they continue to market flavoured products. CMA Recommendations It is the CMA's position that the federal government has an important role in smoking cessation and prevention among youth. The CMA supports the proposed extension of the prohibitions on the use of certain flavouring additives in relation to the manufacture and sale of little cigars to cigars weighing more than 1.4 g but less than 6 g. The CMA remains very concerned that these amendments do not ban menthol flavouring in tobacco products. To that end, the CMA recommends that Health Canada extend its prohibition on flavouring additives to include a ban on the addition of menthol in all tobacco products. 1 Health Canada. Notice of proposed order to amend the schedule to the Tobacco Act. October 14, 2014. Accessed at: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hc-ps/consult/_2014/tobacco-act-loi-tabac/index-eng.php 2 Carpenter CM, Wayne GF, Pauly JL, Koh HK, Connolly GN. New cigarette brands with flavors that appeal to youth: Tobacco marketing strategies: Tobacco industry documents reveal a deliberate strategy to add flavors known to appeal to younger people. Health Affairs 2005;24(6):1601-1610. 3 Manske SR, Rynard VL, Minaker LM. 2014 (September). Flavoured Tobacco Use among Canadian Youth: Evidence from Canada's 2012/2013 Youth Smoking Survey. Waterloo: Propel Centre for Population Health Impact, 1-18. cstads.ca/reports. 4 Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey 2012 , accessed at http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hc-ps/tobac-tabac/research-recherche/stat/ctums-esutc_2012-eng.php. 5 Manske SR, Rynard VL, Minaker LM. 2014 (September). Flavoured Tobacco Use among Canadian Youth: Evidence from Canada's 2012/2013 Youth Smoking Survey. Waterloo: Propel Centre for Population Health Impact, 1-18. cstads.ca/reports. Minaker L, Manske S, Rynard VL, Reid JL & Hammond D. Tobacco Use in Canada: Patterns and Trends, 2014 Edition - Special Supplement: Flavoured Tobacco Use. Waterloo, ON: Propel Centre for Population Health Impact, University of Waterloo. --------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ Canadian Medical Association 2 November 10, 2014
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