Réseau francophone de soutien professionnel

 

Links to online agencies that focus on health promotion and prevention

 

Centre ontarien d’information en prévention / Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse

The Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse (OPC) is Ontario's longest standing health promotion organization. We help individuals, groups and communities use health promotion strategies to achieve health and well-being.

 

Promotion de la santé - Centre de toxicomanie et de santé mentale

The World Health Organization defines health promotion as "the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health." (WHO, 1986)  This section is designed to help people in the fields of mental health and addiction access health promotion information and resources that will enhance their work toward improving the health of individuals and communities.

 

Réseau canadien de la santé / Canadian Health Network

CHN is a national, bilingual web-based health information service. CHN's goal is to help Canadians find the information they're looking for on how to stay healthy and prevent disease. CHN does this through a unique collaboration - one of the most dynamic and comprehensive networks anywhere in the world. This network of health information providers includes the Public Health Agency of Canada, Health Canada and national and provincial/territorial non-profit organizations, as well as universities, hospitals, libraries and community organizations.

 

Réseau des Centres ontariens de ressources pour la promotion de la santé/ Ontario's Health Promotion Resource System

Ontario’s Health Promotion Resource System supports health promotion in Ontario.  People and organizations who want to increase their capacity to effectively promote health in Ontario communities contact our members for

 

• training,
• consultation,
• print and electronic resources,
• network building opportunities, and
• referrals.

 

Centre for Health Promotion – University of Toronto

(English website only/ some information available in French)

The Centre for Health Promotion (Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto), established in 1989, is a community-academic partnership. The Centre is committed to excellence in education, evaluation and research. In a multi-disciplinary, collaborative context it activates, develops and evaluates innovative health promotion approaches in Canada and abroad. The Centre is an active, high quality, internationally recognized leader in health promotion.

 

Santé Canada / Health Canada

Health Canada is the Federal department responsible for helping Canadians maintain and improve their health, while respecting individual choices and circumstances. 

 

Health Canada's goal is for Canada to be among the countries with the healthiest people in the world. To achieve this goal, Health Canada:

 

• Relies on high-quality scientific research as the basis for our work.
• Conducts ongoing consultations with Canadians to determine how to best meet their long-term health care needs.
• Communicates information about disease prevention to protect Canadians from avoidable risks.
• Encourages Canadians to take an active role in their health, such as increasing their level of physical activity and eating well.

 

Tel:  (613) 957-2991
Toll free: 1-866-225-0709

TTY:  1-800-267-1245*

 

* A TTY is a special device that lets people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or speech-impaired use the telephone to communicate, by allowing them to type messages back and forth to one another instead of talking and listening. A TTY is required at both ends of the conversation in order to communicate