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Wellbeing budgeting and public health: promising practice for pandemic
recovery?
Lindsay McLaren PhD
Professor, Dept Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary
Research Associate, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
NCCHPP Webinar, November 25, 2020 1
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1. How does (or could) wellbeing budgeting align with a public health approach?
2. What are some opportunities for public health communities?
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Public Health: organized efforts of society to keep people healthy and prevent injury, illness and
premature death
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CPHA: https://www.cpha.ca/what-public-health
https://www.cpha.ca/what-public-health
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Wellbeing Budgeting: An approach to public budgeting that is “based on the idea that gauging the long-term impact of policies on the quality of people’s
lives is better than focusing on short-term output measures”
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New Zealand 2019 Budget Statement
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• “The global market economy is good at producing wealth, but not at sharing it fairly or protecting the environment from vicious greed”
• “wellbeing outcomes of policy are inextricably linked across jurisdictional levels, as well as across traditional thematic domains of policy”
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Global Happiness and Wellbeing Policy Report 2019; Barrington-Leigh 2020
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• Critical thinking opportunity • Smoke and mirrors?
• Downstream drift
• Note: this is not unique to wellbeing budgeting
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For public health communities
• Potentially offers a coherent vision
• Expertise/literacy
• Research
• Critical thinking and advocacy
• Reflexivity/humility
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Thank you
Lindsay McLaren
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mailto:[email protected]
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Alternative Budgets
• A “what if” exercise
• Principles:• Participatory
• Concrete
• Advocacy tool
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