The Role of Public Health Inspectors in Maintaining Housing in Northern and Rural Communities (Motion #30-11)

Moved by Pilon, Gingras. Approve on May 19, 2011, by the Sudbury & District Board of Health.

Motion

WHEREAS the health risks associated with housing conditions are well known and are influenced by physical, biological, social and psychological factors; and

WHEREAS the Sudbury & District Board of Health has demonstrated its ongoing commitment to improve the social and economic conditions that impact health which include healthy and affordable housing; and

WHEREAS local research conducted in 2008, in partnership with Laurentian University, identified a perceived need for increased public health involvement in housing-related issues; and

WHEREAS in November 2010, a joint Sudbury & District Health Unit, Laurentian University research team, supported by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, released the report: The Role of Public Health Inspectors in Maintaining Housing in Northern & Rural Communities; and

WHEREAS based on research findings, the aforementioned report recommended nine actions to further support public health inspector interventions related to housing and health; these ranged from actions pertaining to specific public health unit practice to additional research and policy advocacy initiatives; and

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Sudbury & District Board of Health endorse the recommendations of the report: The Role of Public Health Inspectors in Maintaining Housing in Northern and Rural Communities; and

FURTHER THAT the Sudbury & District Board of Health urge the Ontario Agency for Health Protection & Promotion, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and the Ministry of Health Promotion and Sport to also endorse the report’s recommendations, and act on those pertaining to the development of guidance documents and training opportunities for Public Health Inspectors; and

FURTHER THAT a copy of this motion and the associated report be forwarded to the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion; the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, the Ministry of Health Promotion and Sport, the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Canadian Public Health Association, the Ontario Public Health Association (OPHA), the Association of Local Public Health Agencies (alPHa), the Association of Supervisors of Public Health Inspectors of Ontario; the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors, the Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities (FONOM), the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) and all Ontario Boards of Health.

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