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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Here’s the message from Jean Lam (PDF, 1 page), Acting Deputy Minister at the Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion.
Welcome Cynthia! Read More...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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