The Best Start Resource Centre occasionally
takes part in research activities, surveys and needs
assessments - often in collaboration with other organizations
and/or experts. This page includes links to some of
the research activities that Best Start has been involved
in.
Implications for Ontario:
Awareness of FASD (2007)
Best Start Resource Centre for the Public Health
Agency of Canada
This report explores new data on
general public awareness about FASD, and considers
implications to program planning in Ontario. It builds
on newly released statistical reports, putting the
information into the context of recommended prevention
activities in Ontario. This report shares relevant
information to identify populations that would benefit
from increased awareness, choose key messages for
these populations, and select strategies to reach
specific populations.
Permission to post this report was
obtained from the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Read the Report.
What We Have Learned : Key
Canadian FASD Awareness Campaigns (2006).
Best Start Resource Centre for the Public Health
Agency of Canada.
A review of key Canadian awareness
campaigns conducted between 2000 and 2005 on prenatal
alcohol exposure.
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/fasd-ac-etcaf-cs/index.html
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/fasd-ac-etcaf-cs/pdf/fasd-ac-etcaf-cs_e.pdf
Teen Pregnancy Prevention:
Summary of the Results of a Needs Assessment of Ontario
Service Providers
Best Start Resource Centre, June 2006
In the spring of 2006, the Best
Start Resource Centre conducted a needs assessment
of Ontario service providers to help determine what
kinds of resources might be useful in the work of
teen pregnancy prevention. Read
the report .
Moving systems to improve
women's health and prevent FASD: A policy forum.
Summary of proceedings and recommendations. Hospital
for Sick Children.
JFAS Int. June 2006.
This report summarizes the highlights
of the March 9, 2006 pre-conference Policy Forum and
invited lectures presented by panelists at the conference
entitled 'Prevention of FASD: Addressing Pregnancy
and Addiction" in Scarborough, Ontario. Read
the report.
MNCHP Network Evaluation.
Spring 2006.
The Best Start Resource Centre established
the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Promotion Network
(MNCHP) in 2001. The Network now has approximately
1,000 members, including practitioners, policy-researchers.
The objectives of the Network are:
to
provide an online forum for the exchange of information,
development
of strategies, to provide a mechanism for sharing
information on maternal, newborn and child health
promotion and
to
promote networking among members.
An evaluation of the MNCHP Network
was conducted in the early Spring, 2006. The evaluation
assessed the effectiveness of the MNCHP Network in
helping health professionals share current information
and strategies related to maternal, newborn and child
health promotion. Read the MNCHP
Network evaluation.
A Survey of women's attitudes
concerning healthy lifestyle changes prior to pregnancy.
The Motherisk Program, Hospital for Sick Children.
JFAS Int. Feb 2006.
In recent years there has been a
concerted effort to educate women of child bearing
years on the benefits of a healthy lifestyle before
becoming pregnant, to ensure the best possible conditions
for their baby. This has included large-scale public
health campaigns to make women aware of the benefits
of taking folic acid prior to pregnancy. A telephone
survey was conducted by Ipsos Reid with a sampling
of 300 women between the ages of 18-44, who were recently
(within 6 years) or currently pregnant. The women
were asked about their lifestyle changes including
their awareness and folic acid use prior to pregnancy.
Read
the survey.
