List of Figures

Figure 0.1: Annual provincial government per capita health expenditure in current dollars for 1) public health (black bars) and 2) hospitals (grey bars), Alberta, 1975 to 2019.

Figure 0.2: Annual percentage of provincial government health expenditure on public health for Alberta, 1975 to 2019.

Figure 2.1: Number of words in Alberta government throne speeches, by year, 1906–2017.

Figure 2.2: Trends over time in the percent of all Alberta throne speech quasi-sentences coded as health (major topic code 3), 1906–2017 (lowess plot).

Figure 2.3: Trends over time in the percent of health quasi-sentences from the Alberta throne speeches coded under three sub-codes: Establishment or construction of treatment-oriented facilities or infrastructure (solid line), Prevention, protection, promotion, core public health functions (dashed line), and Treatment, curative, or management-oriented health care (dotted line), 1906–2017 (lowess plot).

Figure 2.4: Number of times “public health” is mentioned, in Alberta throne speech quasi-sentences coded as health (major topic code 3), by decade, 1906–2017.

Figure 2.5: Number of times “prevent” (and iterations) is mentioned, in quasi-sentences coded as health (major topic code 3) in the Alberta throne speech dataset, by decade (black bars).

Figure 3.1: Select leading causes of death, 1915 to 2015 (5-year intervals). Rate per 100,000 population.

Figure 3.2a: Leading causes of death (individual codes), 1910 to 1920. Rate per 100,000 population.

Figure 3.2b: Leading causes of death (individual codes), 1923 to 1929. Rate per 100,000 population.

Figure 3.2c: Leading causes of death (individual codes), 1931 to 1939. Rate per 100,000 population.

Figure 3.2d: Leading causes of death (individual codes), 1941 to 1949. Rate per 100,000 population

Figure 3.2e: Leading causes of death (individual codes), 1951 to 1959. Rate per 100,000 population.

Figure 3.3: Advertisement for polio insurance (1953).

Figure 3.2f: Leading causes of death (individual codes), 1960 to 1968. Rate per 100,000 population.

Figure 3.2g: Leading causes of death (individual codes), 1969 to 1977. Rate per 100,000 population.

Figure 3.2h: Leading causes of death (individual codes), 1985 to 1999. Rate per 100,000 population.

Figure 3.2i: Leading causes of death (individual codes), 2000 to 2015. Rate per 100,000 population.

Figure 3.4: Incidence of Gonococcal Infections (Gonorrhea), Alberta, 1919 to 2014.

Figure 4.1: Provincial higher-level divisions and branches under the ministries and departments responsible for public health in Alberta, 1919–1993.

Figure 5.1: Resolutions carried by the APHA, 1944–2017, organized according to their alignment with key public health domains (described in Table 5.1), expressed as a percent of total resolutions by decade.

Figure 5.2: Size of APHA membership, 1945–2015. Sources: Minutes from APHA Annual General Meetings, and APHA annual reports.

Figure 6.1: Summary points from the penultimate version (dated February 2006) of the Memorandum of Understanding for the pan-Alberta public health coalition.

Figure 7.1: Map of First Nations in Alberta, which include 48 Nations in three Treaty areas.

Figure 7.2: Map of Métis settlements and communities in Alberta.

Figure 9.1: Medical Offier of Health, Brent Friesen, served as a key spokesperson on fluoridation for the Calgary Regional Health Authority during the 1990s.

Figure 10.1: Infant mortality in Alberta, 1915 to 2015.

Figure 10.2: An Alberta public health nurse holding a child welfare clinic.

Figure 13.1: Malcolm Ross Bow.

Figure 13.2: Ashbury Somerville.

Figure 13.3: Laura Margaret Attrux.

Figure 13.4: Helen Griffith Wylie Watson (nee McArthur).

Figure 13.5: E.S.O. Smith.

Figure 13.6: James Howell.

Figure 13.7: John Waters.

Figure 13.8: Shirley Stinson.

Figure 13.9: Karen Mills.

Figure 13.10: Doug Wilson.