Health and Learning Environmental Scan: 2006

Existing national reports/recent reports that could perhaps become published
regularly on adults’ health and learning (as identified by the AWG Committee, June
2005)

Bhatti, T., & Hamilton, N. (1996). Population health promotion: An integrated model of
population health and health promotion. Ottawa: Health Canada.

Brown, C., & Dryden, W. (2004). Literacy as a barrier to health and health as a barrier to literacy.
Literacies, 4(4-9).

Calamai, P. (1987). Broken words: Why five million Canadians are illiterate. Toronto,
ON, Canada: Southam Newspaper Group.

Federal, Provincial, and Territorial Advisory Committee on Population Health (1999).
Towards a healthy future: Second report on the health of Canadians. Retrieved
January 7, 2006, from http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/ph-sp/phdd/report/subin.html

Gillis, D., Quigley, B. A., & MacIsaac, A. (2004). Taking off the blindfold, seeing how
literacy affects health: A report of the Health Literacy in rural Nova Scotia Research Project.
Antigonish, NS: St. Francis Xavier University. Retrieved January 7, 2006, from
http://www.nald.ca/healthliteracystfx

Genuine Progress Index (GPI) Atlantic (2002). The Cost of Chronic Disease of Nova Scotia.
Halifax: GPI Atlantic (and see other GPI Indexes for Canada).

Existing national reports/recent reports that could perhaps become published regularly on adults’ health and learning (as identified by the AWG Committee, June 2005)

Existing national reports/recent reports that could perhaps become published
regularly on adults’ health and learning (as identified by the AWG Committee, June
2005)