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All-terrain vehicles

https://policybase.cma.ca/en/permalink/policy719

Last Reviewed: 2014-03-01

Date: 1989-08-23

Topics: Health care and patient safety; Population health/ health equity/ public health

Resolution: GC89-46; That the Canadian Medical Association recommend: a) that the federal departments of transport and consumer and corporate affairs enact legislation for the purpose of setting national safety standards for all-terrain vehicles, b) that provincial governments be urged to review and strengthen regulations related to the use of all-terrain vehicles, c) that provincial governments be urged to introduce a specific driver's licence category for all-terrain vehicle drivers; such licence would require demonstrating competence in handling the vehicle.

Policy Type: Policy resolution

Last Reviewed: 2014-03-01

Date: 1989-08-23

Topics: Health care and patient safety; Population health/ health equity/ public health

Resolution: GC89-46; That the Canadian Medical Association recommend: a) that the federal departments of transport and consumer and corporate affairs enact legislation for the purpose of setting national safety standards for all-terrain vehicles, b) that provincial governments be urged to review and strengthen regulations related to the use of all-terrain vehicles, c) that provincial governments be urged to introduce a specific driver's licence category for all-terrain vehicle drivers; such licence would require demonstrating competence in handling the vehicle.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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