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Below is a list of media releases sent out by the staff and programs at the Haldimand-Norfolk Unit.
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SIMCOE, ON – From June 24th to June 30th 2009, the youth-led group working out of the Health Unit, Fresh Heir will be assembling a display of environmentally friendly cups in the chain link fence located on Queen Street in Simcoe. The purpose of this event will be to educate the community about the dangers […]
SIMCOE, ON, JUNE 3, 2009 – Osteoporosis is not just a disease of the elderly, nor is it a normal part of aging. That’s the main message that a group of community experts hope to get across to people at a public forum taking place on Wednesday June 10th at 7:00 p.m. at St Paul’s […]
SIMCOE, ON, JUNE 2, 2009 – On Monday June 8th, Dr. Rick Adachi, a leading international expert on osteoporosis will be speaking at a free public forum at Ruthven Park National Historic Site in Cayuga. Dr Adachi is the Director of the Canadian MultiCentre Osteoporosis study and also a professor in the Department of Medicine […]
CALEDONIA, ON – From May 25th to June 1st, 2009, the Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit’s youth group, Fresh Heir will be assembling a display in the chain link fences located on Haddington Street and Caithness Street. The purpose of this event will be to educate the community about the dangers of flavoured tobacco products, with the […]
For over one hundred years, nurses have practiced in public health. The first public health nurses were in England. The United States and Canada started using nurses in public health in the early 1900’s. Public health nurses practice in a “setting without walls” as the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario puts it. They are anywhere […]