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Service Description:
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Works with the residents to help prevent illness, protect against
disease and promote healthy lifestyles
Staff provide:
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information, guidance and support on a variety of public health issues,
including nutrition, substance use, injury prevention, physical
activity, tobacco use prevention, and heart health
- ensuring healthy communities through the testing and monitoring of water
quality, inspection of food premises, investigation of environmental
hazards and the follow-up of animal bites
- prevention of the spread of communicable diseases through immunization,
infection control programs, outbreak management, and the follow-up of
animal bites
- Sexual Health clinics for area residents, including
confidential counselling, pregnancy testing, free condoms, low-cost birth
control, cervical cancer screening (HPV testing), and the testing/treatment/teaching about
sexually transmitted infections
- offers free preventive dental services, dental
examinations for preschool and elementary school students, and information
about financial-support programs that cover the costs of dental care
- provides education and resources on reproductive health and
preschool speech and language development
- provides education
and support to pregnant women, new mothers and their babies through the provincial Healthy Babies, Healthy Children Program
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