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Adults - Healthy Living

  • Aboriginal Canada Portal This link will take you to another web site (external link)
    Your single window to Canadian Aboriginal on-line resources, contacts, information, and government programs and services.
  • Coalition for Active Living This link will take you to another web site (external link)
    This site focuses on how fitness and recreation activities are a central part of active living.
  • Alberta Health and Wellness This link will take you to another web site (external link)
    Provincial government site containing information about Alberta Health and Wellness programs and services.
  • Physical Activity
    Physical activity offers a range of benefits for all ages and abilities as part of a healthy lifestyle.
  • Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse This link will take you to another web site (external link)
    This site has information on activities related to minimizing the harm associated with the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.
  • Canadian Council on Social Development This link will take you to another web site (external link)
    The CCSD is a not-for-profit organization that has a mandate to promote better social and economic security for all Canadians. The CCSD conducts research in the areas of income security, employment, poverty, child welfare, pensions and government social policies.
  • Environmental Health This link will take you to another web site (external link)
    The Safe Environments Programme (SEP) promotes healthy living, working and recreational environments by identifying and assessing health risks to Canadians posed by environmental factors.
  • Federal Initiative to Address HIV/AIDS in Canada
    This Public Health Agency of Canada site provides information on Canadian advances in HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment, research, surveillance and community development.
  • Industry Canada This link will take you to another web site (external link)
    This website provides Canadians with business and consumer information. The site is aimed at not only informing, but also at making Canadian businesses and consumers more successful at home and abroad.
  • Justice Canada This link will take you to another web site (external link)
    Canada's Department of Justice works to ensure that Canada's justice system is as fair, accessible and efficient as possible. This site has information on current Department of Justice initiatives.
  • Men's Health This link will take you to another web site (external link)
    Listing of Health Canada information that can be accessed on various men's health issues including heart disease, hypertension, nutrition and tobacco.
  • Mental Health
    This Public Health Agency of Canada site provides a wide range of online materials related to mental health promotion. It includes links to other related sites.
  • National Clearinghouse on Family Violence
    Canada's resource centre for information on violence within relationships of kinship, intimacy, dependency or trust.
  • Natural Health Products This link will take you to another web site (external link)
    The Natural Health Products Directorate of Health Canada (NHPD).
  • Nutrition and Healthy Eating This link will take you to another web site (external link)
    Information on Canada's Food Guide, Body Mass Index and the newest recommendations on infant feeding.
  • NWT Health and Social Services This link will take you to another web site (external link)
    The Government of the Northwest Territories department responsible for a broad range of health and social programs. This site contains information on what is underway to promote, maintain and enhance the health and well-being of the citizens of the Northwest Territories.
  • Office of Public Health Security (OPHS)
    OPHS provides information on global and national public health events to Canadian and World Health Organization officials. OPHS deals with travel medicine and tropical health issues that affect Canada. The office is responsible for the Emergency Operations Centre which responds to calls for emergency assistance from provincial and territorial governments and from other parts of the Government of Canada.
  • Statistics Canada This link will take you to another web site (external link)
    Statistics Canada's site provides the latest data on a variety of Canadian behaviours. Also provides information from the 2006 census.
  • Travel Health
    This site has information for travellers including locations of travel health clinics, travel health advisories, and more.
  • Women's Health This link will take you to another web site (external link)
    Here is an index of Health Canada information available on a wide range of topics related to women's health.