This Report provides a comprehensive overview of Haldimand County and Norfolk County communities with a particular emphasis on the community environment, health status, health behaviours and factors affecting health. The purpose of this section is to inform comprehensive action for Healthy Communities in the counties of Haldimand and Norfolk.
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Haldimand County and Norfolk County are neighbouring rural municipalities located in Southwestern Ontario, along the shore of Lake Erie.
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This chapter on health status provides data about Haldimand County and Norfolk County’s health status considered by mortality, unintentional injuries and obesity.
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The Health Behaviour Profile chapter reports on several health behaviours that are known to impact on health including healthy eating, mental health, physical activity, substance and alcohol misuse and tobacco use and exposure.
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Factors affecting health, the social and economic conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, are called the social determinants of health.