Resources for Health & Wellness

Resources for finding information to help you to manage your health.

Canadian Institute for Health Information
495 Richmond Rd., Ste. 600
Ottawa, ON K2A 4H6
T: 613-241-7860 F: 613-241-8120
Website: www.cihi.ca
E-mail: communications@cihi.ca

Publication requests:
T: 613-241-7860 ext. 6188
F: 613-241-8120
E-mail: orderdesk@cihi.ca

CIHI provides Canadians with essential statistics and analysis about their health and their healthcare system. CIHI is a source of information for those seeking answers to critical questions around the performance of the Canadian health system, the delivery of health care, and the status of Canadians’ health. CIHI has offices in Ottawa, Toronto, Victoria, Edmonton and Montreal.

Canadian Red Cross
300-170 Metcalfe St.
Ottawa, ON K2P 2P2
T: 613-740-1900 F: 613-740-1911
Website: www.redcross.ca
E-mail: feedback@redcross.ca

The Canadian Red Cross Society offers a wide variety of First Aid and CPR training courses, and eight workplace training courses with an emphasis on recognition and prevention of injuries before they occur. Referrals to local providers; courses in emergency and standard first aid; CPR; oxygen and AED training; advanced training for workplace emergency response teams; preventing disease transmission.

CBC News – Health
Website: www.cbc.ca/health
Articles provide a Canadian perspective on the latest health related news stories.

DrugCoverage.ca
Website: www.drugcoverage.ca
This site provides information about reimbursement for prescription medications in Canada, including information on the various types of private insurance plans, provincial/territorial drug benefit programs and federal plans.

Health Canada
It’s Your Health (IYH)
12th Floor, Room 1273D, Brooke
Claxton Building, Tunney’s Pasture
Postal Locator: 0912D
Ottawa, ON K1A 0K9

Information and Publication request line:

T: 613-957-2991, 1-866-225-0709
TTY: 1-800-267-1245
F: 613-952-8644
Website: www.healthcanada.gc.ca/iyh
E-mail: iyh-vsv@hc-sc.gc.ca

Drawn directly from Health Canada and Public Health Agency of Canada specialists, the articles explain important health issues in simple language. All articles are updated regularly as scientific and new health information becomes available. Also contains links to more detailed and technical sources of information. Subscribers receive e-mail notification about new IYH articles and updates.

Public Health Agency of Canada
130 Colonnade Rd.
Ottawa, ON K1A 0K9
Website: www.publichealth.gc.ca

The Public Health Agency of Canada focuses on preventing chronic diseases, like cancer and heart disease, preventing injuries and responding to public health emergencies and infectious disease
outbreaks.

WebMD
Website: www.webmd.com
This site provides health information, timely articles, and tools for managing your health.