Niagara Region Public Health is committed to meeting the public health needs of our community. We demonstrate this commitment through health protection, disease prevention, health promotion, and injury prevention programs.

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We offer a complete range of public health programs to:

Promote:

• Healthy child development and healthy parenting
• Positive mental, reproductive, sexual, dental, and heart health
• Immunization
• Early detection of cancer

Prevent:
• Substance abuse and tobacco use
• Chronic diseases and injuries
• Infectious diseases

Protect:
• Our communities from infectious diseases and environmental hazards (food, water, air, and soil)
• Niagara by preparing for, responding to, and recovering from emergency situations
• Residents and visitors by providing emergency medical services

Through our team of skilled health professionals and Public Health Senior Management Team, we work closely with our community to improve the social and physical environments where we live, learn, work, and play so residents can reach their full health potential.

Regional Council is your Board of Health.

Niagara’s Yearly Checkup – Public Health 2008 Annual Report

Public Health includes the following divisions:

• Administration
  Support Public Health’s overall operations. These include: management of physical resources and assets; financial monitoring and reporting; support to the operating programs; administrative support; occupational health and safety; and management and administration of computers and technology.

• Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention
  Promotes healthy eating, tobacco-free living, active living, sun safety, and early detection of cancer prevention to reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, obesity, and cancer. Helps people learn how to be safe in their everyday lives; in the home and on the road.

• Clinical Services
  Provides immunization clinics and information, infection prevention and control activities, sexual health services and clinics, and mental health services.

• Community Development and Surveillance
  Directs and/or supports the development, implementation and evaluation of internal and external information sharing strategies and ensures all standards are consistent with those of the department and corporation. The division includes the areas of community development, continuous quality improvement and education, health assessment, community surveillance, health promotion, communications, and social marketing work across the department

• Emergency Services
  Consists of our Niagara Emergency Medical Services team of paramedics and emergency medical dispatchers.

• Environmental Health
  Investigates public health concerns about environmental health hazards and conducts inspections of food establishments, nursing homes, migrant farm worker housing, personal services establishments, and beaches.

• Family Health
  Consists of our reproductive health, healthy babies/healthy children, dental health, infant and child development services, and school health programs providing resources and services to pregnant women and families with children from birth to 18 years.

• Medical
  Consists of the offices of the Medical Officer of Health, Associate Medical Officers of Health, Associate Commissioner, Community Development Manager, Communications and the SHARE Unit (epidemiology and GIS).

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