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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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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • • “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

    [email protected]

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    mailto:[email protected]

  • Alternative Budgets

    • A “what if” exercise

    • Principles:• Participatory

    • Concrete

    • Advocacy tool

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