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Join Canada's Social Determinants of Health leaders and decision makers for an exciting two-part event hosted by Upstream. Growing public awareness of the roots of good health has opened the door to many conversations about how to equitably improve social conditions that help determine good health. Upstream invites you to join us in exploring the... |
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Dr. Perry will provide a general overview of brain development, the impact of abuse and neglect, and intervention implications. This day is for a broad audience including child development and early intervention professionals, First Nations Health Authority staff, Aboriginal service providers, mental health clinicians, probation officers, social workers, foster parents, educators, alcohol and drug counsellors,...
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The 7th National Biennial Conference on Adolescents and Adults with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) The 7th National Biennial Conference on Adolescents and Adults with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) The Hyatt Regency, Vancouver, BC, Canada Although there have been thousands of published articles in FASD in general, there has been limited research specifically on... Research on Adolescents and Adults: If Not Now, When? The 7th National Biennial Conference on Adolescents and Adults with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) As adolescents and adults with FASD continue to age, the “need to know” across a broad spectrum of areas is becoming critically important for identifying clinically relevant research questions and...
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To better align with current evidence that all forms of movement have an impact on chronic disease prevention, the Public Health Agency of Canada (the Agency) has broadened the scope of physical activity surveillance to include sedentary behaviour and sleep behaviours, as well as their risk and protective factors. This webinar will review the process... |
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The FRESH-IT Evidence Application Guide and the Policy Readiness Tool will be introduced. In this webinar we will look at specific case studies and examples of retail food environment actions, discuss policy readiness and introduce the FRESH-IT website. To register and for more info: https://cdpac.webex.com/mw3000/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=cdpac |
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Children and young people (ages: 7-18) have need support in staying healthy. This is especially true when it comes to how they understand health information and when they think about what it means to be “healthy”. We call this their “health literacy”. Health literacy means their ability to understand and use information about their health.... |
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Registration is now available: https://ubc.eventsair.com/in9543/registration/Site/Register Course Description Diabetes is an emerging epidemic. No matter what area of healthcare you work in, you will encounter people affected by diabetes. New approaches to diabetes management are continuously appearing. This comprehensive course is for health professionals from a variety of disciplines who face diabetes in practice. The goal... |
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Reminder: The extended deadline for submissions of oral presentations is 28th February and for posters is 31st March, 2016. The 4th Annual Weight Stigma Conference will be held in Vancouver, BC, Canada April 29 and 30, 2016. For more information about this conference please see: http://stigmaconference.com/abstract-submission/ The 4th annual weight stigma conference is happening! Despite the growth of weight stigma scholarship, weight-based oppression continues to be dominant within society, where thinness is privileged and fatness is oppressed. Given the harmful psychological and physiological consequences of weight stigma, exploring ways to change cultural attitudes and beliefs about body size is, therefore, evermore... |
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