Hasn Health Canada been focussed on public health? Whats different about the strategy now?
A.22 Public health has always been a key component of Health Canada’s mandate to maintain and improve the health of Canadians. The creation of the Public Health Agency of Canada and other key components of a renewed public health system will build on this work to foster greater collaboration and coordination. The main advantages of the Agency are the focus and prominence it brings to health issues that are of importance to Canadians and specifically ensuring that Canada has a public health system prepared to anticipate and respond to public health threats.
