Introduction
This appendix includes information generated by participants in working sessions at the CCL HLKC consultation that took place in Vancouver in June 2005.
Questions about other future Issues/Trends for the HLKC (as identified by the
AWG Committee, June 2005) (As identified by the AWG Committee, June 2005)
- What are the lessons to be learned from women’s health movements that might be applied to broader population health and adult education strategies.
- What issues related to work-place health and safety among adults with low-literacy skills should be considered?
- How will the Health and Learning KC collaborate with the Adult Learning KC in the Atlantic Region and avoid duplication? Also with the other KCs?
- How can learning from the exemplary projects and programs across Canada andbeyond be collected from the above sectors, and others, to inform future research
and practice?
- How can we impact future policy based on what we already know?
Potential themes and topics that could/should be investigated and addressed by CCL (as identified by the AWG Committee, June 2005)
- Individual Factors: The relationship between health and learning at the level of the individual/behaviour, including factors such as genetics, gender, growth & development, ability, culture, etc or specific attributes such as health
literacy/knowledge, assertiveness, social/life skills etc)
- Environmental Factors: The interaction between individual characteristics,
broad social and economic factors, social and physical environments such as
homes, neighbourhoods, pre-schools, daycare, schools, workplaces, health care
institutions, etc and public systems such as learning systems, health systems.
- Interventions: The effectiveness, costs and benefits of specific interventions such
as policies, programs, services, etc. These are often applied to specific health or
learning problems.
- Coordination of interventions/systems change: The effectiveness,
sustainability, coordination, cost-effectiveness of comprehensive approaches that
address both health and learning and that use educational and health interventions.
- Monitoring/reporting: Status reports, evaluation studies, indicator development,
measures of quality etc