Board of Health

BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Confirmation of the Chair and Vice-Chair report; Chair of the Board of Health Verbal Report; Medical Officer of Health Verbal Report; Making Healthy Eating and Active Living the Easy Choice report; Towards Better Outcomes for Communities and Patients: Protecting and Leveraging Public Health in Ontario’s Proposed Health System Transformation report; Healthy Start: Part 3 – Toddler / Preschool Health report; Ottawa Public Health’s Activities to Support Syrian Refugees in Ottawa report; and, Attendance at the Association of Local Public Health Agencies’ (alPHa) 2016 Board of Health Winter Symposium report be received and considered.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Board of Health approve that the meeting time be extended past 7:00 p.m. pursuant to Subsection 8.(1)(c) of the Procedural By-law.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT Recommendation #3 in the Towards Better Outcomes for Communities and Patients: Protecting and Leveraging Public Health in Ontario’s Proposed Health System Transformation report be amended, as follows: 3. Approve that the Chair of the Board of Health include in the letter, referenced in Recommendation 2, a recommendation that Boards of Health be afforded ex-officio representation on Local Health Integration Networks (LHIN) Boards in order to effectively influence priority setting , and also recommend that public health representation from Boards of Health be included on the Expert Panel outlined in the Ministry’s Patients First report ; DIRECTION TO STAFF Member Kapur That the letter referenced in recommendation 3 to the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care also state that a whole government approach, at the municipal, provincial and federal level, should be enhanced to advance policies and programs that address the social determinants of health and to address inequities in health outcomes. 6. HEALTHY START: PART 3 – TODDLER/ PRESCHOOL HEALTH ACS2016-OPH-HPDP-0002 That the Board of Health for the City of Ottawa Health Unit receive this report for information. Ms. Sherry Nigro, Manager, Health Promotion Disease Prevention, and Mr. Marino Francispillai, Program Manager, Family and School Health, spoke to a PowerPoint presentation, which served to provide the Board with some context on this report. A copy of the presentation is held on file with the Board of

BE IT RESOLVED THAT Confirmation By-law no. 2016-1, a by-law of the Board of Health for the City of Ottawa Health Unit to confirm the proceedings of the Ottawa Board of Health at its meeting of February 8, 2016, be read and passed.