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Healthy Workplace Resources - Health Practices - Health Care (General)
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Algoma Health Unit
Serves the area of Algoma including Sault Ste. Marie, Echo Bay, St. Joseph Island, Goulais River etc. offering workplace health services.
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Arthritis Society of Canada
Provides information on programs and services that are available to individuals.
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Asthma Society of Canada
Offers information about asthma and how to live an active life with asthma.
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Brant County Health Unit
Serves the Brant County including Brantford and surrounding communities offering workplace health services and information.
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Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound Health Unit
Provides services to workplaces of the Bruce and Grey Counties as well as to the City of Owen Sound.
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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 Diabetes Association
Provides information about diabetes and offers helpful links to other diabetes information.
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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 Hearing Society
Offers information on employment counselling services; interpreter services; hearing and workplace noise assessments; brochures and booklets on hearing loss, etc.
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Canadian Homecare Association
Offers information on initiatives, programs, research and innovations; fact sheets; newsletter with membership; and referrals to local support groups.
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Canadian Hypertension Society
Provides research on hypertension in Canada and offers suggestions for effective approaches to the management of this disease.
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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
Offers a Quit Smoking Guide to help people quit, and Do You Want To Quit? Information booklets online. Online educational materials and information on support groups; links to websites on teens and smoking, statistics and research; brochures on smoking; asthma and workplace air quality. Provincial Lung Associations offer specific cessation programs.
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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 Mental Health Association
Promotes the mental health of all people and to serve mental health consumers, their families and friends.
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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 Pharmacists Association
Offers workplace seminars; drug use management program resources; and referrals to local pharmacies.
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Canadian Red Cross Society
Offers information about how the Red Cross helps society, as well as prevention and awareness issues surrounding first aid and disaster initiatives.
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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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Canadian Society of Intestinal Research
Provides information on IBS, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, as well as other gastrointestinal tract disorders; pamphlets; support groups; and newsletters.
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Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Provides health promotion and prevention services and information.
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Chatham-Kent Health Unit
Provides resources and information about workplace wellness to organizations in the Chatham-Kent area.
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City of Hamilton, Social and Public Health Services
Offers services to workplaces of the City of Hamilton and surrounding areas.
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CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal
Allows physicians and medical students to interact with each other and with CMA, and to find the tools and resources they need to enhance their professional and personal lives.
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Costs of Obesity and Physical Inactivity
Estimates the direct costs related to the treatment of and research into obesity in Canada in 1997.
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Costs of Tobacco
A document that explores the issues of determining smoking-attributable costs, its effects on public health, and estimates the smoking-attributable costs for residential care.
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Depression & Anxiety Information Resource & Education Centre
Provides information on depression and anxiety, offers resources for these topics and research studies.
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Donald B. Brown Research Chair on Obesity
Support group information is available, as well as references; online 'Find a Physician' Tool; newsletters; magazines; online databases; links; and information on weight management and
nutrition.
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Eastern Ontario Health Unit
Offers workplace health information to Eastern Ontario including Cornwall, Alexandra, Casselman, Rockland, Winchester, etc.
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Elgin St. Thomas Health Unit
Provides workplace health services to workplaces of the City of St. Thomas and Elgin County.
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Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit
Provides workplace health services, courses and information to the Halliburton, Kawartha and Pine Ridge District.
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Halton Regional Health Department
Serves Burlington, Halton Hills, Milton and Oakville offering workplace health services and programs to local organizations.
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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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Hastings and Prince Edward Counties Health Unit
Provides workplace health services to organizations in the Hastings and Prince Edward Counties including Belleville, Trenton, Bancroft, Picton, etc.
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Health Canada
Offers information about a variety of health related issues.
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Health Canada – Publications & Resources
Offers a variety of downloadable information guides, health models, and case studies.
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Health Care Information Resources: McMaster University Health Sciences Library
Offers resources and web links to information on staying healthy, nutrition, aging disease, and sexual health.
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Health Promotion Ideas that Work
A "how-to" book of practical programming ideas that address topics of nutrition, fitness, stress, weight control, smoking cessation, cancer prevention, and work and family balance. Includes ideas for holidays, seasonal and general promotions.
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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 Canadian
Provides health related news and information, as well as locate service providers, health associations, consumer health products, and links to the pharmaceutical industry.
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Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Provides information on heart disease, stroke and nutrition, offers advice on heart healthy menus for company cafeterias, information on stress, smoking cessation and nutrition.
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Help for Headaches
A quarterly newsletter is available, entitled Making Headway;
the website also suggests neurologists within a certain geographical area, provides support, education and information, and can perform presentations on-site.
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Huron County Health Unit
Offers workplace health services to organizations in the Huron County.
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Institute for Health Promotion Research
Provides research on health promotion and population health and its impact in the community, the workplace, schools, the clinical setting, and international settings.
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Integrative Health Institute
Focuses on wellness, health promotion, and the healing process. Provides expert advice about the benefits of integrating conventional and alternative health care options for addressing the body, mind, and spirit, as well as the environment and relationships with others.
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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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Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox, Addington Health Unit
Provides workplace health services to organizations in the Kingston, Frontenca, Lennox, and Addington areas.
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Lambton Health Unit
Provides workplace health services to organizations in the Lambton County including Forest and Point Edward.
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Leeds, Greenville and Lanark District Health Unit
Offers workplace health information to organizations in the Leeds, Greenville and Lanark District.
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Male Health Centres
This website is facilitated by a group of physicians interested in providing patients with information and treatment for erectile
dysfunction and prostate disease. It is designed to assist the patient in deciding upon appropriate treatment for the disorder.
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MEDLINEplus
Provides medical and health information through studies, tutorials, encyclopaedias, etc.
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Middlesex-London Health Unit
Offers workplace health information to organizations in Middlesex-London region.
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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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Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada
Provides resources and information on the disease, as well as ways to live a healthy lifestyle and get involved in finding a cure.
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Muskoka-Parry Sound Health Unit
Provides workplace health information to organizations in the Muskoka-Parry Sound area including Bracebridge, Huntsville, Burks Falls etc.
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Northwestern Health Unit
Provides workplace health information to organizations in the Northwestern District including Kenora, Dryden, Sioux Lookout, etc.
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Nutrition Resource Centre
Provides programs, guides, and other valuable resources to strengthen the capacity of community nutrition practitioners across Ontario to deliver quality nutrition programming in a health promotion context.
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Ontario Health Promotion Resource Centre
Supports Health Promotion in Ontario for people and organizations that want to increase their capacity to effectively promote health in Ontario communities.
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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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Oxford County Board of Health
Offers workplace wellness information to organizations in the Oxford County including Woodstock.
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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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Perth District Health Unit
Provides workplace health services to organizations in the Perth District including Stratford and Listowel.
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Peterborough County-City Health Unit
Offers workplace health services to organizations of the City of Peterborough and County.
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Physical Inactivity Increase Health-care Costs in Canada
Offers examples of studies that have been done regarding physical activity.
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Policy: The Key to a Healthy Workplace
Helps in the development of health promoting workplace policies in terms of healthy lifestyles, healthy environments, and social responsibility policies.
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Population and Public Health Branch
Provides information regarding policies, programs, and systems relating to prevention, health promotion, disease surveillance, community action, and disease control. Contains a compilation of information contained on the sites of the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control (LCDC) and sites of the former Health Promotion and Programs Branch (HPPB) in one cohesive branch site.
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Porcupine Health Unit
Provides workplace health services to the entire Cochrane District and Hornepayne in Algoma District including Cochrane, Hearst, Kapuskasing, and Moosonee.
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Prevention Pays - Making the Case with Dollars and Sense
Helps promote the knowledge and use of different types of economic evaluations in the Canadian non-profit sector, and provides some of the tools to do this increasingly important work.
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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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Regional Municipality of Durham Health Department
Offers workplace health services to organizations of the Durham Region including Oshawa, Pickering, Ajax, Whitby, Uxbridge etc.
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Regional Municipality of Haldimand-Norfolk
Offers a variety of free and low cost services to workplaces in Norfolk and Haldimand Counties including Dunnville, Caledonia and Simcoe.
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Regional Municipality of Waterloo
Provides services to the residents of the region of Waterloo including Waterloo and Kitchener.
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Regional Niagara Public Health Department
Offers workplace health services and information to organizations of the Niagara Region including Welland, St. Catharines, Niagara Falls, Fonthill, Thorold, etc.
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Renfrew County and District Health Unit
Provides health promotion, health protection and developmental services to organizations of Renfrew County and the Township of South Algonquin in the Ottawa Valley.
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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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Simcoe County District Health Unit
Offers workplace health services and information to organizations of Simcoe County including Essa, Innisfil, Severn, etc.
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Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
This website offers information and articles related to pregnancy and birth, contraception and sexual health, and menopause, symptoms, and related health issues. A large focus is also on the International Women's Health Program.
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St. John Ambulance
Offers information on courses in emergency first aid, standard first aid, CPR; safety and health promotion training.
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Sudbury District Health Unit
Provides workplace health services to organizations of Sudbury, the District of Sudbury and the Manitoulin districts.
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Thunder Bay District Health Unit
Offers workplace health information to organization of the Thunder Bay District including Thunder Bay, Marathon, Schrieber etc.
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Timiskaming Health Unit
Provides workplace health services to organizations of the district of Timiskaming including the amalgamated municipality of Temagami.
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Toronto Public Health : Healthy Lifestyles
Offers workplace health services to the organizations of Greater Toronto.
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University of California Berkeley Wellness Letter
Translates leading-edge research into practical advice for daily living - at home, at work, while exercising, and in the market or health-food store.
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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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Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit
Offers workplace health services to the organizations of Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph district.
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Wellness Options Magazine
Encourages health awareness, and promotes wellness options and health choices.
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Windsor-Essex County Health Unit
Provides workplace health services to organizations of Windsor-Essex County including Windsor, Leamington, and Essex.
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World Health Organization
Promotes the attainment for all people to achieve the highest level of health.
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York Region Health Services Department
Offers workplace health services to organizations of the York Region including Vaughn, Richmond Hill, Maple etc.
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