Healthy public policy is an important strategy for improving the health of individuals and populations.1-4 Because they can enact these policies, legislators should be a key focus for public health policy research. We have previously presented Canadian legislators' views on selected aspects of health promotion according to political party.5 In this report, we describe the relationships between Canadian legislators' support for public health policies and two groups of potentially important predictors: 1) political factors, and 2) personal characteristics.
METHODS
The data were collected as part of the Canadian Legislator Study.6,7 All Canadian federal (n=291) and …