Transcript The Manitoba Risk Factor Surveillance Story

The Manitoba Risk Factor
Surveillance Experience
Why Risk Factor Surveillance?
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Identified as top priority by PHAC, CPHA, many
institutes of the CIHR, Pan-Canadian Healthy Living
Strategy & CDPAC
New investment in integrated CDP: MHHL, PHAC,
CCMB, CCS, H&SF-MB, RHAs
In Manitoba, local level data was needed for CDPI &
healthy living planning
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Lack local data or capacity to collect to data
Need new data collection mechanisms for community-level
data
No pre-existing surveillance tool for collecting local
level data was available in MB
Local Context
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Triggers:
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CDPI grant money
Lack of local-level data
Well developed HPWG that understood the information
needs of the communities
HPWG worked to develop a tool & process to meet
the needs of the communities
IRHA tool was then adopted by other RHAs to meet
their surveillance needs
Went looking for partners to collaborate with (NGOs
& others)
Characteristics
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C of P to help each other & operate as a system –
Partners in Planning for Health Living
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Came together to pool our resources, work together in a
collegial manner to build our own capacity & to use
evidence to build an integrated knowledge system. We
share common mandates for the prevention of chronic
diseases.
Focused on evidence
Support development of knowledge and capacity
within communities
Support integrated community planning for healthy
living
Regional Risk Factor Surveillance in Manitoba
Surveillance
Evaluation
Knowledge
Reporting
PRACTICE-BASED Exchange
EVIDENCE
Program Development
EVIDENCE-BASED
PRACTICE
Best Practice
Identification And
Dissemination
Challenges & Opportunities
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Manitoba approach supports multi-level leadership &
collaboration (RHAs, School Boards, NGOs, Manitoba
Health, PHAC, others) to build sustainability
Working & learning together while meeting local
needs
Manitoba geography makes collaboration difficult &
expensive
Challenge to develop shared meaning; link
surveillance to planning & interventions and further
evaluation – to think and act as a system