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Public Health Agency of Canada - Stroke Info-sheet for seniors

• What are the warning signs?
• Who is at risk?
• Can stroke be prevented?
• What are the effects of a stroke?
• Rehabilitation
• For more information

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Public Health Agency of Canada  - The Healthy Heart Kit

Kit on Diabetes and Heart Disease; Smoking and Heart Disease; High Blood Pressure and Heart Disease; Physical Inactivity and Heart Disease; Weight Control and Heart Disease; Cholesterol and Heart Disease; Physicians Guide

Health Nexus is our parent organization and Ontario's longest standing health promotion organization. We help individuals, groups and communities use health promotion strategies to achieve health and well-being.

We strive to be your most reliable source of heart disease and stroke information. We are also the largest non-commercial source of funds for heart disease and stroke research in the country. We do this through people support - volunteers, donors and employees.

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario

Comprehensive web site includes latest research, news, risk management tools, delicious recipes, e-newsletter " Healthline", offices' contacts throughout Ontario.
Stroke - new section on STROKE. All the information in this section is Canadian, current and has been approved by Heart and Stroke Foundation medical experts.

OHPRS supports health promotion in Ontario. People and organizations who want to increase their capacity to effectively promote health in Ontario communities. Links to 22 member organizations who work to reduce chronic disease risk factors throughout the province.
See HP 101 - a free on-line course in Health Promotion. The course provides an introduction to Health Promotion (HP) concepts, theories and resources.

"The Canadian Stroke Network - one of Canada's Networks of Centres of Excellence - is a unique collaborative effort that brings together researchers, students, government, industry and the non-profit sector. At present, the Network has more than 100 researchers at 24 universities across the country."
Site offers the latest research, news and events, Stroke 101, and Clinicians' Corner

The HHRC provides support to the 37 community partnerships of the Ontario Heart Health Program - Taking Action for Healthy Living in Ontario, who plan, deliver and/or evaluate comprehensive community-based heart health strategies. The HHRC fosters networking and communication between peers through the Ontario Heart Health Network as well as its newsletter and e-mail discussion lists.
On-line resources database, directory of Heart Health communities, newsletter, publications.

Terminology defined and explained. The resources listed in this guide are compiled by the Consumer Health Information Service, 3rd floor, Toronto Reference Library. Complementary materials may also be found at the North York Central Library and local branches of the Toronto Public Library.
Source for the definitions unless otherwise specified: National Stroke Association.

Ontario's Action Plan for Healthy Eating and Active Living is a response to the key findings in the Chief Medical Officer of Health's report, Healthy Weights, Healthy Lives.
The plan offers new programs and strategies, and builds on existing ones to support healthy eating and active living in Ontario. The Ministry of Health Promotion will address critical gaps through investments in a variety of programs and services in 2006-07.

This Self-Help Resource Centre project applies the self-help model to stroke prevention in underserved and marginalized communities. Participants design practical activities promoting healthy lifestyles, using direct input from health agencies, community groups, and representatives of the target populations themselves.

OWHN promotes women's health by linking women to relevant resources and providing channels that allow women to voice their health concerns.
Find services near you. Search the database of women's health and community services in Ontario.

The purpose the project, called Count Us In!, was to investigate how health and social services in Toronto, and in the province of Ontario, can be made more inclusive, and in turn, promote the health and well-being of marginalized groups. Homeless and underhoused women who live in Downtown East Toronto led the research and were actively engaged in all stages of the project, from collecting and analysing the data to developing the final recommendations. They facilitated 11 focus groups with 58 women who are homeless or underhoused. 4 The researchers collected feedback on the health and social services that women use as well as the participants' ideas about how policies and services could be improved. Count Us In! aims to influence how governments and service providers plan, deliver and fund services for populations that are marginalized. As one participant said, this is an opportunity for the service providers to "step back and take a good look at what is needed."

Key to Women's Health: A Health Promotion Framework to Prevent Stroke Among Marginalized Women is one of the products of the Marginalized Women, Inclusion and Stroke research project carried out in 2006. Using Inclusion Research, this partnership project explores marginalized women's awareness and understanding of stroke at three sites in Ontario, including Peel, Sudbury and downtown Toronto. This project created a framework for new health promotion strategies to reach and support women who are particularly vulnerable and at-risk for stroke.

This site was built with the goal of bridging the gap in knowledge translation between research findings and current clinical practice. This site can be used to find the most current information about the value of the various interventions used in stroke rehabilitation.

Stroke Recovery Canada^TM is a national program providing post-recovery encouragement, education and programs for stroke survivors, their families and health care providers. Stroke Recovery Canada partners with local peer support groups and local resources to help stroke survivors survive and thrive after stroke.

HEALTH PROMOTION TOOLS

The Ontario Health Promotion Resource System (OHPRS) developed this free course, "Health Promotion 101" as a collaborative effort between the 22 member organizations with funding from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care.
OHPRS chose to create the course in a stand-alone online format to help maximize its accessibility. We recognize that many of our members' clients find it difficult to travel to scheduled, face-to-face events or simply prefer alternative methods of learning. We hope that by making these materials available online, with no registration required, people will find innovative ways to use them to support their health promotion work.

Take these quick quizzes to help evaluate your motivation and help you plan those first steps in becoming more physically active.
Evaluate Your Motivation.
Planning Your First Step.

When it comes to a healthy lifestyle, small steps can make a big difference.
On this page you can:

• Learn more about the risk factors of heart disease and stroke and the steps you can start taking right now to live a longer, healthier life.
• Take the Heart&Stroke Risk Assessment to learn what your heart and stroke risks are and to receive a personalized