Contents
Introduction: What Is Public Health, and Why Does It Matter?
1 Who Is the Public in Public Health?
2 Priorities and Concerns of Provincial Governments: An Historical Public Health Landscape
3 Albertans’ Health over Time: What We Know (and Why We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know)
4 Public Health Governance: A Journey of Expansion and Tension
5 The Non-Profit Sector: Trials and Tribulations of the Alberta Public Health Association
6 Public Health Education: Power and Politics in Alberta Universities
7 Stories from First Nation Communities in Alberta: Reconciliation Involves All of Us
8 Health Protection — Climate Change, Health, and Health Equity in Alberta
9 Mobilizing Preventive Policy
10 Health Promotion and the Ottawa Charter in Alberta: A Focus on Maternal and Child Health
13 Public Health Leadership: Courage, Conflict, and Evolving Understanding of Power
APPENDIX A: Alberta-relevant papers published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health, 1919–2019.
APPENDIX B: Details and Sources for “Leading,” “Selected,” and “Certain” Causes of Death presented in Table 3.1 and Figure 3.1 (Chapter 3).