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Healthy Workplace Resources - Q&A / Discussion Groups
A forum for discussion or a "frequently asked questions" page.
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Arthritis Society of Canada
Provides information on programs and services that are available to individuals.
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Canadian AIDS Society
Provides information on topics of interest to the CAS, including background information on key HIV/AIDS related issues.
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Canadian Cancer Society
Provides information on cancer, risk reduction, support services, and more.
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Canadian Dental Association
Provides information and articles surrounding dental related issues. Offers membership.
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Canadian Health Network: Health Promotion Health Centre
Encourages people and communities to make healthy lifestyle choices and to take a more active role in their health.
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Canadian Health Network: Healthy Eating Health Centre
Offers resources for adopting a more healthy diet.
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Canadian Health Network: Mental Health Centre
Provides information and resources on mental health issues.
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Canadian Health Network: Tobacco Health Centre
Provides information and resources on smoking.
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Canadian Institute for Stress
Prepares workplaces, communities, and individuals in the change-abilities and risk management strategies required for successful, not stressful transitions to their planned futures.
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Canadian Liver Foundation
Offers information on how your liver works, the different types of liver disease, research discoveries, and health and wellness.
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Canadian Lung Association's National Influenza Immunization Campaign
Flu at Work Kit' with details on workplace vaccination programs, vaccination reminders, and posters.
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Canadian Massage Therapists Alliance (CMTA)
Provides information and resources designed to promote the art, science, and philosophy of massage therapy for the betterment of health care in Canada. Membership is available, including referrals to provincial associations and research initiatives.
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Canadian MedicAlert Foundation
MedicAlert offers various options to encourage employers to
include MedicAlert as part of an overall corporate Health and Wellness program or Health Benefit Package for employees. This website outlines options such as full or partial employer subsidies, employer group savings on membership fees and/or products. Face-to-face presentations, health exhibits, relevant articles for newsletters, and enrolment clinics are also offered.
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Canadian National Institute for the Blind
Provides information about eye safety programs for the workplace in particular regions.
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Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF)
This organization acts as a resource and facilitator in the pursuit of equity, fairness, and social justice. The website offers local referrals; information; and a report on employment issues called Unequal Access.
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Canadian Sleep Society (CSS)
Offers online access to a list of sleep facilities across Canada; sleep brochures and other related tools; as well as online access to sleep experts by province.
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Dietitians of Canada
Offers tools and ideas on how to eat healthier.
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Eat Well, Live Well
Provides a variety of resources designed to help you check out your food choices, activity patterns, and body weight. Provides personalized feedback to help you achieve your healthy eating and active living goals and answer your nutrition questions.
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Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS): Workplace Policy
Explores steps workplaces can take to put a workplace smoking policy in place.
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Harvard Medical School's Consumer Health Information
Offers health news and content as well tools and risk assessments.
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Health in Action- Alberta
Gives you immediate access to information, people and resources needed to make your health promotion and injury prevention programs and research more effective.
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Healthfinder
Provides a database for finding the best government and nonprofit health and human services information on the internet.
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Healthy Computing
Provides unbiased information on computer-related health and safety.
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Healthy Eating
The Healthy Eating Program was developed in 1993, and is designed for use by people who have the opportunity to include healthy eating education into existing and developing programs in order to increase knowledge and skills on healthy eating.
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Healthy Eating at Work
Provides answers to issues relating to healthy eating at work.
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Internet Mental Health
Explores an online encyclopaedia on mental health.
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Kids Have Stress Too!
Provides information on how to effectively manage children's stress.
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Kids Health
Providing health information about children from before birth to adolescence.
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Mental Health Works
Helps organizations recognize the important role they can play in supporting the mental health of their employees and how they can respond appropriately when employees experience mental health problems.
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Motherisk (c/o Hospital for Sick Children)
Newsletters; pamphlets; books; and information available regarding the safety or risk of drugs, chemicals, and disease during pregnancy and lactation.
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Office of Nutrition Policy and Promotion
Offers current, reliable nutrition information to promote the health and well-being of Canadians.
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OSH Answers
Provides answers to Occupational Health and Safety questions.
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Osteoporosis Society of Canada
This website provides easy-to-understand information about
the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of osteoporosis. It
offers referrals; peer counselling phone line; workplace seminars; literature; and contact information for provincial chapters.
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Parkinson Society of Canada
Website offers referrals to regional offices; workplace seminars; local support groups; exercise classes; fundraising events; newsletters; educational conferences; professional
speakers; resource materials; and peer support programs.
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Program Training and Consultation Centre
Provides training and consultation services to enhance the capacity of Ontario communities to implement effective community-based tobacco use reduction strategies.
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Prostate Cancer Research Foundation of Canada
Information regarding prostate cancer is available as well as a message board to contact other individuals with prostate cancer; and a free monthly e-newsletter.
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Sex Information and Education Council of Canada
Access to information on sexually transmitted diseases, sexuality and contraception; access to the Common Questions About Sexual Health Education document, Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, and other articles and information sources through the website, including a research library.
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Smoking Cessation: Living Smoke Free
Provides methods, tips, and rewards for quitting smoking, including e-Quit: Health Canada's free daily quit smoking e-mail support system.
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Stepping Up Your Physical Activity: Walking to Improve Your Health
Offers suggestions and encouragement on developing a successful walking program as a primary means of physical activity.
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Substance Abuse in the Workplace
Explores issues such as how substance abuse problems may affect the workplace, possible costs to a business, and how a business can address such issues.
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UV Index
Offers information and tips on how to protect yourself and your family against the sun's harmful UV rays.
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Work-Life Balance in Canadian Workplaces
Includes information about policies and programs regarding work-life balance in Canadian Workplaces. Includes: Voices of Canadians: Seeking Work-Life Balance and Collective Agreements and Older Workers in Canada
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Workplace Stress: General
Provides answers to questions regarding workplace stress issues.
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