Leading Healthy Life

 Learn about the risks of problematic substance use, smoking and vaping. Find out how to have a healthy pregnancy and the environmental factors that can affect your health.

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• Canadian dental benefit

• Human moth virus

• Vaping

• Sun Safety

Mental health and well-being

Mental illness, suicide prevention, post-traumatic stress disorder, cannabis, and mental health. 

To be active 

Benefits, encourage children to be active, play safe, active transportation. 

Substance use 

Legal and illegal drugs, cannabis and alcohol, how and where to get help, effects of stigma.

Pregnancy 

Advice during the pandemic, healthy eating, reproductive health, food safety, folic acid and neural tube defects, oral health.

 Health of children and infants 

Infant care, safe sleep, childhood obesity, National Child Day.

Smoking, vaping and tobacco

Vaping, tobacco products, effects of smoking, secondhand smoke, prevention and quitting smoking.

Health and environment

Environmental factors that affect your health, air quality, pest control and pesticides, home and garden safety tips.

Youth health

Mental health and wellness, smoking cessation, bullying, substance use, cybersecurity, violence and abuse, sexual health.

Aging and seniors

Elder abuse, age-friendly communities, injury prevention, mental health and support.

Sexual health

Screening, preventing, managing and treating sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections.

Blood, organ and tissue donation

Impact of COVID-19, blood donations, organ and tissue donations.

Travel health and safety

COVID-19, health advice for travelers, advice before you leave, during your trip, your safety outside Canada. 

Hand hygiene 

How to wash your hands properly and when to do it.

What we do

Laws and regulations

• Non-smokers health 
• law Canadian Environmental Protection Act

Investigations

• A Shared Vision to Promote Physical Activity and Reduce Sedentary Living.

• Active Family-centred maternal and newborn care: national guidelines.

• Guidance for Assessing Human Health Impacts in Assessments environmental

Consulting 

• Consultation - Reducing the accessibility and appeal of vaping products for young people: Possible regulatory measures
• Consultation - Measures under consideration to mitigate the impact of vaping product advertising on youth and non-users of tobacco products 
• Consultation on proposed amendments to the Tobacco Reporting Regulations
• Consultation on proposals surrounding the regulation of vaping products.