| Summary: | In 1994, a Forum on National Health was held in Sun Valley, California to discuss
the responsibilities of the university for the health of urban populations. It called for the
development of a "New School of Public Health" in the urban centre to deal with
community crippling health issues and preventive care. The current state of health care in
Canada cannot support the tradition of individual and curative care in the wake of an aging,
expanding population and rising medical costs. Efforts must be directed towards
preventive, public health education. This thesis will deal with three major issues: (I) the
re-establishment of a National School of Public Health as an academic institution and part
of a new civic building - an Academic Health Centre; (2) to house in the Academic Health
Centre major public and community health related facilities in Vancouver such as the Dr.
Peter AIDS Foundation and Hospice; and (3) to urbanize the Academic Health Centre in
downtown Vancouver as a way to educate the community about preventive health issues
through passive and interactive means such as billboarding, media, and ease of accessibility
to lectures, and resource facilities.
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