Browse by Tags

Headlines for Feb 25 2008
25 February 08 03:40 PM
From the Kingston Whig-Standard: Words important to wellness: study; More than half of Canadians can’t understand health-care info However, Statistics Canada released an article in Education Matters: Insights on Education, Learning and Training Read More...
Journal Articles of Interest, February 2008
22 February 08 03:24 PM
My colleague Alison has flagged a number of interesting articles in the most recent Health Education and Behavior and Health Promotion International. Full-text access requires a subscription (which may be available through your local university or public Read More...
Headlines for February 21 2008
21 February 08 05:21 PM
A very interesting paper out of Norway (via, I believe, KU-UC E-Watch): Evidence-Informed Health Policy: Using Research to Make Health Systems Healthier - Report from Kunnskapssenteret (Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services) (PDF, 112pp.) Read More...
Health Promotion Foundation: an idea whose time has come
11 February 08 10:27 AM
OPC congratulates Alberta’s new HealthVision2020 coalition on its call for an investment equal to 1% of the health care budget to establish an Alberta Health Promotion Foundation. Way to go, Alberta Health Promoters. See www.healthvision2020.ca. Read More...
20 years since the old abortion law was struck down by Supreme Court of Canada
28 January 08 03:19 PM
Newer and younger Canadians may not be aware how recently abortion access opened up for most Canadians. Today is the 20th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that ruled that the former criminal code that limited abortion infringed on a woman’s right Read More...
Weedless Wednesday and Smoke-Free Cars
23 January 08 10:02 AM
Today, January 23rd is marked by tobacco-control advocates during National Non-Smoking Week as Weedless Wednesday, offering a “one day at a time” approach to quitting smoking. For many smokers who may be discouraged at the thought of an entire Read More...
Cynthia Morton is the new Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Health Promotion
21 December 07 12:11 PM
Here’s the message from Jean Lam (PDF, 1 page), Acting Deputy Minister at the Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion. Welcome Cynthia! Read More...
Picard article: Don’t pull the plug on CHN’s superb website
14 December 07 10:03 AM
A great article on the Canadian Health Network (CHN) by health columnist André Picard is on Page L6 in the Life Section of yesterday’s Globe and Mail. Picard points out that individuals are being told to take greater responsibility for their health, Read More...
Sign the Petition to Save CHN
29 November 07 12:04 PM
Friends of CHN is an ad hoc group whose objective is to focus attention on the closure and its impact, and to try to turn this decision around. We have created a petition addressed to Prime Minister, Stephen Harper and Minister of Health, Tony Clement Read More...
Dying of a broken heart: Social isolation is a powerful risk factor
29 November 07 10:27 AM
When 67-year-old Derek Raymond got the call telling him his daughter Susan had died, he collapsed, and within 30 minutes he too was dead. A review of the cardiovascular toll of stress on the heart in the Sept. 22 issue of The Lancet tells us that Mr. Read More...
More Posts Next page »

This Blog

Tags

Archives

Syndication