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The Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion was established in 2008 by the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion Act, 2007. [2] The OAHPP is an agent of the Crown (i.e. a Crown agency) and is considered an arm's-length government agency.
In Ontario, under the Health Protection and Promotion Act, a public health unit (PHU) is an official health agency established by a municipality. [2] PHUs administer health promotion and disease prevention programs to inform the public about healthy life-styles, communicable disease control, immunization, food premises inspection, healthy growth and development, health education for all age ...
The Women's Health Protection Act is a piece of legislation introduced in the United States House of Representatives, aimed at expanding abortion rights established in Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v.
In Ontario, a Public Health Unit (PHU; French: Bureaux de santé) is a government organization under the supervision of a local board of health. A PHU is under the direction of a Medical Officer of Health (MOH), who is appointed by the supervising board of health. The principle legislation governing PHUs is the Health Protection and Promotion Act.
Child Nutrition Act; Children's Health Act; Children's Health Insurance Program; Children's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2013; Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act; Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005; Combating Autism Act; Community Health Services and Facilities Act; Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act
In April 2020, de Villa initially used her authority under section 22 of the Health Protection and Promotion Act to order all individuals with COVID-19—as well as those who have been in contact with confirmed cases—to remain home for 14 days. [12]
This first publication of health promotion is from the 1974 Lalonde report from the Government of Canada, [10] which contained a health promotion strategy "aimed at informing, influencing and assisting both individuals and organizations so that they will accept more responsibility and be more active in matters affecting mental and physical health". [11]
A National Prevention, Health Promotion and Public Health Council (National Prevention Council) was created to develop a national strategy on prevention, health promotion and public health; by, for example, disseminating evidenced-based recommendations on the use of clinical and community prevention services. [7]