Understanding Healthy Lifestyles: Measuring & Monitoring Behavioural Risk Factors

Location: Cornwall, Ontario, The NAV CANADA Centre

Goal:

To further professional excellence and to advance the practice of epidemiology in the area of healthy lifestyles

Objectives:

To review current practices and explore future directions for the measurement of healthy lifestyles, specifically nutrition, healthy weights, physical activity and smoking.
To increase awareness and promote utilization of relevant data sources that are useful in the assessment of healthy lifestyles.
To enhance our current knowledge of existing behavioural risk factors monitoring mechanisms.
To highlight current and emerging trends regarding the investigation of healthy lifestyles.
To reflect on the implications of recent policy developments in public health with respect to healthy lifestyles.
To provide a platform for public health professionals to present results of their research related to healthy lifestyles.
To provide a forum for epidemiologists and other public health professionals to network and exchange ideas

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