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The History e-Book
A significant accomplishment among CPHA’s centenary activities is the completion of a history of public health in Canada. This is Public Health: A Canadian History is an interactive e-book. It’s engaging, richly illustrated, suitable for a broad audience and available as a free download. Canadian public health history is now accessible and easy to share!
This is Public Health: A Canadian History is dedicated to public health advocates and activists who “fought the good fight,” struggling to advance community health long before Canadian health systems were in place. This book provides a chronological history from the early colonial period until 1986, when the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion launched what many consider to be a new era in public health. The epilogue takes a look at more recent years.
A limited number of CDs are now available, in addition to a printed bilingual executive summary. Plans are also underway for a downloadable French version of the complete history.
This is Public Health: A Canadian History
- Executive Summary (PDF: 805k)
- The complete book
- Interactive version (PDF: 23.7m)
- Printable version (PDF: 5.4m)
- Foreward and Prefaces
- Interactive version (PDF: 1.1m)
- Printable version (PDF: 742k)
- Introduction
- Interactive version (PDF: 1.5m)
- Printable version (PDF: 1.3m)
- Chapter 1 – 1887-1909: The Sanitary Idea
- Interactive version (PDF: 3.9m)
- Printable version (PDF: 958k)
- Chapter 2 – 1910-1919: Transformation and World War I
- Interactive version (PDF: 3.5m)
- Printable version (PDF: 934k)
- Chapter 3 – 1920-1929: Modernization and Growth
- Interactive version (PDF: 4.6m)
- Printable version (PDF: 841k)
- Chapter 4 – 1930-1939: A Period of Decline
- Interactive version (PDF: 3.6m)
- Printable version (PDF: 781k)
- Chapter 5 –1940-1949: World War II and Expansion
- Interactive version (PDF: 3.9m)
- Printable version (PDF: 887k)
- Chapter 6 –1950-1959: Growth in Research, Services and Funding
- Interactive version (PDF: 2.4m)
- Printable version (PDF: 790k)
- Chapter 7 –1960-1969: Social Transformation and Health Services
- Interactive version (PDF: 2m)
- Printable version (PDF: 805k)
- Chapter 8 –1970-1986: A New Perspective on Public Health
- Interactive version (PDF: 3.2m)
- Printable version (PDF: 1.1m)
- Epilogue
- Interactive version (PDF: 830k)
- Printable version (PDF: 552k)
- Editors, Canadian Journal of Public Health
- Interactive version (PDF: 774k)
- Printable version (PDF: 474k)
- Past Presidents / Chairs of the CPHA Board of Directors
- Interactive version (PDF: 893k)
- Printable version (PDF: 447k)
- All Profiles (from the contents)
- Interactive and printable version (PDF: 1.4m)