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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
Health Unit staff provide:
- 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
- Healthy Babies, Healthy Children Program provides education and support to pregnant women, new mothers and their babies
Services and Programs:
Sexual Health Clinic
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