Population Health
The Population Health department
The Population Health department aims to improve health equity by assessing, promoting and protecting the well-being of the people of Saskatchewan. The team works with health system leaders and community partners to improve conditions that support equitable health outcomes.
Team members
- Epidemiologists
- Population health promotion practitioners
- Public health nutritionists
- Geographical information systems analyst
- Population and public health research and evaluation specialists
- Population and public health data analysts
Supports provided
- Population and public health surveillance and epidemiology
- Building capacity for population health promotion interventions
- Building healthy public policy
- Strengthening community and inter-sectoral engagement and action
- Actions that reduce inequities between population groups
- Emphasis on engagement by and with people who experience inequities
- Population health assessments
- Promote, protect, and support nutritional health
- Prevent nutrition-related disease and illness
- Mental health capacity building in schools
- Mapping and spatial analysis with geographical information systems (GIS)
- Population and public health research, evaluation, and survey development
Integrated service areas population health teams
- Epidemiologists, population health promotion practitioners, and public health nutritionists
- Teams support the integration of epidemiology and surveillance data, population health promotion approaches, community engagement, and partnership development. Their aim is to inform equity-based decision making.
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