Prince George Drafts Outdoor Smoke and Vape-free Bylaw

The City of Prince George is taking action on improving the health of their citizens by looking at tobacco use in the city. Earlier this year the City hosted a smoke-free 2015 Canada Winter Games. They initially created a proclamation that all official venues used for the 2015 Canada Winter Games would be smoke-free in partnership…

The economic benefits of risk factor reduction in British Columbia: Excess weight, physical inactivity and tobacco smoking

The economic benefits of risk factor reduction in British Columbia: Excess weight, physical inactivity and tobacco smoking

The report estimates the current provincial and regional prevalence rates of three chronic disease risk factors: excess weight (obesity and overweight), physical inactivity, and tobacco smoking, as well as the direct health-care costs and indirect productivity losses associated with each of the risk factors. Understanding the current costs of these risk factors and how these…

My Health My Community Survey Results Released

My Health My Community Survey Results Released

Community health profiles based on the latest analysis from the My Health My Community survey have been released. The results reflect 33,000 respondents across the Vancouver Coastal and Fraser regions.  My Health My Community is a web-based health and wellness survey that asks specific information about the health status and health needs of the local…

Green Space and Mental Health: Pathways, Impacts, and Gaps

Green Space and Mental Health: Pathways, Impacts, and Gaps

Around the globe, mental health disorders are a significant and growing cause of ill health and early death, with the burden of such diseases increasing by more than a third between 1990 and 2010. Almost a third of all Canadians have experienced a mental illness at some point during their lifetimes. A Statistics Canada survey…

FNHA Winter Wellness Grants

FNHA Winter Wellness Grants

WHAT Building on the success of the Aboriginal Day of Wellness the FNHA is excited to offer Winter Wellness grants to encourage the development of innovative, culturally grounded health promotion events and campaigns. Applications will be weighed against the following criteria. HOW Communities, organizations and agencies engaged in direct health service delivery to BC First…