B.C.'s Population and Public Health Framework

• Take concrete actions to dismantle Indigenous-specific racism in the population and public health system
• Uphold Indigenous Rights and advance Truth and Reconciliation
• Honour Indigenous knowledge and wisdom by acknowledging the interconnectedness of human health, the health of communities and the health of lands and waters

Influence the social, ecological and structural determinants of health to take action on systemic racism within population and public health and work to eliminate preventable health disparities so that no one is left behind.

Strengthen the core public health functions and enabling functions that support population and public health teams to promote health and wellness, prevent disease and injury, protect health, and respond to evolving population needs, including to emerging threats. 

Build foundations of good health by reducing unfair disadvantages for pregnant people, children and families. 

Mitigate health and societal impacts from communicable diseases and prepare for any future pandemic.

• Anticipate, assess, prevent and reduce the human health impacts and hazards from climate change, recognizing the interconnectedness of human health and the health of the environment
• Support climate change adaptation, resiliency and mitigation activities that protect populations

Prevent and reduce the impacts of non-communicable disease and injury.

Improve the mental health and wellness of the population, including by cultivating connection to land, language, place and community. 

Prevent and reduce harms of legal and illegal psychoactive substances. 

Enabling people to increase control over and improve their health and well-being through individual and collective action on the determinants of health.

Coordinating action across sectors to ensure that health impacts of decisions are factored into public policies.

Working to ensure healthy air, food, drinking water and environments to sustain healthy people and thriving communities.

Developing the capacity to mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from health emergencies.

Measures to reduce the risk and occurrence of communicable and non-communicable diseases, illnesses and injuries, and to create the living conditions that support health and wellness.

Ongoing collection, analysis, interpretation and mobilization of population health data with the intent to improve health and with a commitment to Indigenous data sovereignty.

Creating and supporting integrated, interoperable population health systems that provide data for timely use and analysis.

Planning, financing and coordinating population and public health resources.

Ensuring effective health governance, policy and legislative infrastructure, including commitments outlined in the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.

Ensuring that the workforce has the right scale, knowledge, skills and capacities to fulfill all core public health functions in trauma-informed, person-centred, culturally safe and anti-racist ways.

Working together across sectors and communities to advance population health.

Promoting, facilitating and communicating evidence-informed decision-making that upholds Indigenous knowledge systems and other diverse cultural values and beliefs, to transform knowledge into action and enable a learning public health system.