Child and youth health

Strategies and actions by the OPHA and its partners to support the need for a holistic approach are: 1. Influencing the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Public Health Division, the Ministry of Children and Youth Services and the Ministry of Health Promotion and other ministries such as Ministry of Education to establish integrated mechanisms for comprehensive and collaborative planning, impl [...] At the provincial level, the formation of the Ministry of Children and Youth Services resulted in a transfer of accountability for the Healthy Babies, Healthy Children Program and the Early Child Development projects from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Public Health Division to the Ministry of Children and Youth Services. [...] Conclusion In order to make a real and lasting impact on the health of Ontario’s children and youth, the Ontario government must simultaneously support the use of a comprehensive health promotion approach and the provision of direct services for children, youth and families. [...] The Mandatory Health Programs and Services Guidelines for public health set as a goal “to increase the percentage of children and youth who meet physical, cognitive, communicative and psychosocial development milestones”; and WHEREAS studies indicate many physical, social and environmental factors influence the health of children; and WHEREAS studies have shown. [...] OPHA Child and Youth Health Workgroup will distribute the Child and Youth Health: Strengthening Inter-Ministerial Integration position paper to the Ministry of Children and Youth Services, including regional offices, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Public Health Ontario Public Health Association position paper and resolutions (2005) 16 Child and Youth Health: Strengthening Inter-Ministe