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Protect your child always well against heat and sun with a bonnet or cap, and sunburn cream. Hou baby younger than one year from direct sunlight and put them under a parasol or in the shade. Hou your child from the sun between 12 and 15 hours. Hou account with the clothing of your child if he plays in the sun. How dense the substance is woven, how better it protects against the sun. Smeer your child regularly with sunburn cream. There its bands and stickers buy which indicates when your child can no longer remain in the sun. These is buy at the general storekeeperOr you now on office work or on the lorry, your workplace must be simply safe. For this reason the Working Conditions Act has established rules to which must keep themselves your employer for as much risk in at perken. A large responsibility for your security lies therefore at your employer. These are for example oblige afscherming, place so that moving machine components can cause no lesion or to ensure if means of protection as gehoorkappen, the sound level comes above the standard from.

But you play of course yourself also a large role as for your security and those of your colleague go. The Working Conditions Act states very clear that employers and employees are responsible for good working conditions. Your boss can find still this way many measures, but as its employees these supplies not - or not in the correct manner - uses, then the work becomes not more safely of it. YOU know yourself to the bests risk that your job with itself bring with. Act there thus to and always communicate dangerous situations to your employer.

Health on a journey

There is nothing like leaving on holiday to slacken and escape from the stress the daily life; but there are precautions to take to remain in health throughout the voyage and to return in full form.What you can doBefore leaving on a journey, you must get information about the conditions of health which prevail in the countries that you will visit, like about the precautions being taken. With this intention, consult the following resources: Voyages and health - Infofiche Your health and you - is a layer of information runs and easy to read which introduces councils to you to travel in full safety The following bond brings you to another Web site The Councils of health to the travellers - information on the recent blossomings in the other countries; The following bond brings you to another Web site Information specific to a disease; The following bond brings you to another Web site Private clinics health-voyage - to consult a specialist in medicine in the voyages before leaving; The Councils of general order on health on a journey - how to prevent the disease on a journey.

As an health professional, it may be that you have to exempt councils with Canadians who travel abroad. The following bond brings you to another Web site The Programme of medicine of the voyages from the Agency of public health of Canada places at your disposal the following resources which contain additional information and guiding lines: The following bond brings you to another Web site Advisory committee of tropical medicine and the medicine of the voyages; The following bond brings you to another Web site Information on the disease of the yellow fever;

Additional resources

Several useful additional resources and bonds are available, including the Initiative of fight against the family violence of the government of Canada, as well as the Violence section and abuse and the Section The following bond brings you to another Web site page of violence towards the children of the Web site of the Agency of public health of Canada.Healthy life means to make positive choices which improve your physical, mental and spiritual health. You made these choices when you:

* eat a variety of food of nutritional quality as suggested by the Canadian food Guide;
* develop a circle of social contacts supporting the mutual aid and the respect;
* remain physically active in order to keep the form, to reduce the stress and to increase your energy;
* abstain from smoking and put a term at the unhealthy lifestyles.

The lifestyle choices healthy are influenced by the medium in which you live, work or study. You to maintain with the current positive practices of health in your environment is effective means of improving your general health and your feeling of wellbeing. Available resourcesCanada encourages the Canadians to play a more active part in their health. In this section, you will find information to help you to make choices informed on your health in fields like the healthy food, the physical-activity, the pregnancy, the mental health and sexual and reproductive health.

Information available

Canada encourages healthy sexuality while making available, thanks to the publication of various documents, the information based on the scientific research in progress.This information should not replace the councils of an health professional. If you have a medical problem, want to communicate with a qualified health professional.To obtain councils of an health professional or services of health care, consult The following bond brings you to another Web site the list of the provincial and territorial phone numbers concerning its/VIH.

Violence and abuse

Violence occurs in various contexts, including the residences, the schools, the vicinities and the communities, independently of the age, the sex, the sexual orientation, the social class, the ethnic origin, the religion, of the membership spiritual, physical skill, intellectual capacity or place of residence. The following bond brings you to another Web site The Canadian Center of information on violence in the family of the Agency of public health of Canada, is the resource centre in Canada as regards family violence. One finds there the data on the frequency and the prevalence of family violence, as well as the models and practical exemplary on the prevention, protection and the treatment.

Sunburn cream

Children must be well protected against sun; both against direct sun of above as well as the reflection (especially at winter postage and on the range). Their kinderhuidje are delicate and extra sensitive for UV-straling.

* Protect your child always well against heat and sun with a bonnet or cap, and sunburn cream.
* Hou baby younger than one year from direct sunlight and put them under a parasol or in the shade.
* Hou your child from the sun between 12 and 15 hours.
* Hou account with the clothing of your child if he plays in the sun. How dense the substance is woven, how better it protects against the sun.
* Smeer your child regularly with sunburn cream.
* There its bands and stickers buy which indicates when your child can no longer remain in the sun. These is buy at the general storekeeper

The children

Tracking, so known like monitoring in health, is a continuous and systematic process of collection, analysis and interpretation of descriptive information for the follow-up of the problems in health.

The information extracted the data analysis on the wounds in Canada guarantees the promotion campaigns in health and the legislation aiming at reducing the wounds. Information coming from the activities of monitoring can be used for teaching of the security measures, with the withdrawal of products, the standards for the manufacturers and the health policies. Tracking also helps to identify the groups at the risk more, to detect the incidents in chain, to determine the risk factors and the causes of wound, to compile historical data and to raise questions which require a thorough research.Violence towards oneself and others

Violence occurs among Canadians with all the stages of their life. Research shows that violence represents an health question of first importance. The individuals who undergo the test of it are more prone to disorders as much of a physical nature than mental. Moreover, their health in general and their wellbeing will be affected not only in the immediate future but over one prolonged period of their life.

Family violence, the suicide attempt and the suicide are responsible for a great number of wounds each year. This section contains relevant bonds on all the types of intentional wounds, including the suicide, the violence made to the women, the ill treatments with regard to the elder ones, violence and the negligence with regard to the children, the sexual exploitation children, violence towards the men and family violence in general.

Role of Canada Health

Role of Canada Health

Canada works with partners of everywhere in Canada, such as the Agency of public health of Canada, the units of public health, the hospitals, the educational establishments, the maintenance of law and order, the governmental organizations and voluntary who devote themselves to the promotion of safety and the prevention of the wounds. Santé Canada is implied in several activities having milked with the promotion of safety and the prevention of the wounds, such as:

* national monitoring on the wounds and seeks;
* safety of the products - under the jurisdiction of The following bond brings you to another Web site the Law on the hazardous substances;
* information and messages to inform and sensitize the public;
* prevention programs of the wounds conceived for groups of population more at the risk (children, First nations and Inuits, elder).

When a wound occurs, it is generally the health system which deals with the treatments and the readjustment. But the safety and the prevention of the wounds concern each citizen, that it is at the house, work, on the roads, the playing fields and the sporting installations, like in the natural environments.Follow-up The wound is one of main concerns as regards public health in Canada; its consequences pass by the more and more raised economic burden and can carry out to disability and even until death.

Safety and wounds

The wound represents the public health problems which have the greatest impact on the life of the Canadians. It is in the forefront of the cases of death at the children and the teenagers and of the cases of hospitalization at the children, the teenagers and the elder ones. And in the whole of the Canadian population, the wound is the major cause of disability of short and long life. (source: “Injury Monitoring in Canada: Current Realities, Challenges” Health Canada 2003) What is what a wound? A wound is a physical damage which occurs when the body has to provide amounts of energy beyond its capacities or when it is private of a vital element, such as the air, water or heat.

A perhaps intentional or accidental wound.

The intentional wound car-is inflicted (suicide, self-mutilation) or is inflicted with others (family violence, violence with regard to the children, aggression, murder).The accidental wound is quite simply nonintentional - it is the result of accidents of motorized vehicles, falls, fires and poisonings.More than 15 million Canadians have an employment and the majority of them passes an important part of their productive time in their work environment (Source: Web site of Canada Statistics). The work environment is a favourable place to inform the Canadians on the ways of remaining in safety and health at the work.To help the Canadians to maintain their health and wellbeing in the middle of work, Santé Canada offers a panoply of information on safety and the wounds to work. Consult the following sections:The difference between the diseases and the wounds is that these last occur very suddenly. A person goes perfectly and, in a few seconds, it can be wounded, handicapped or mortally wounded. The wounds are regarded as “accidents”, term which induces in error, because it suggests that nothing could be made. But, actually, the wounds are avoidable.Role of Canada Health

Babies in health

In addition to the Canadian food Guide, the section on the healthy food will provide you guides and references in nutrition for the toddlers, the young people and the women who are or try to become pregnant. The Vitalité program offers FAQ as well as reports/ratios to you and publications will answer your questions about the nutrition and the weight health. You can even check if you have a weight health by using the calculator of index of body mass.Babies in health

Babies in health

The mission of Canada Health consists in improving health of the Canadians. A pregnancy in health for a childbirth without risk, follow-ups of a healthy growth and a development of the child, are guaranteed of one long-term good health.Information available Santé Canada offers information to the parents in order to help them to reduce the risks of wounds and diseases and to promote the healthy development their children. The Ministry also places at the disposal of the health professionals of information and the tools which will help them to offer their programs and their services to the infants and to their parents.Bisphenol hasIn this section, you will be able:

* to discover how the majority of the nonintentional wounds of childhood can be prevented if the parents know how to keep the environment of their sedentary child;
* to obtain information on the risks associated with the syndrome with sudden death with the infant and what you can make to reduce them;
* in learning more about the breast feeding, recognized as being best mode of food of the infant, and how to make breast feeding an successful experience;
* to obtain information about the immunization and how you can protect your baby from certain diseases by vaccinating them;

Healthy food

In order to incorporate the physical-activity in your daily newspaper, consult them The following bond brings you to another Web site Guides of physical-activity Canadian - for children, young people, adults and elder. These guides are designed to help you to make choices lit as regards physical-activity in order to improve your health, to prevent the disease and to benefit from the life to the maximum.Healthy food

The healthy food develops a body in health and is essential to maintain a weight health. The Canadian food Guide and other publications in nutrition provide information on the nutritive requirements to help you to choose food of nutritional quality. You can to also serve you as the labels of nutrition on the food products to help you to make healthy dietetic choices.What can you make?

To eat well does not mean to give up your preferred food, but to choose them in a judicious way. Test some of the following suggestions at the time of your choice of food:

* Choose a variety of food of all the groups like the fruits, vegetables, the dairy products and the grains.
* Privilege the cereal products, vegetables and the fruits.
* More often choose weak food in fat.
* Made physical-activity regularly and adopt a healthy food in order to reach and maintain a weight health.
* Check the nutritional labels on the food products in order to better be able to compare them, to determine their contribution in vitamins and minerals, to know if they answer other dietetic requirements and if you must reduce or increase the consumption of a food in particular.

Positive life

Physical-activity

The physical-activity improves health and the wellbeing; reduced the stress; reinforce the heart and the lungs; increase the energy level; helps to reach and maintain a weight health; support a philosophy of positive life. Research showed that the physical inactivity constitutes a great risk factor of premature death, chronic disease and disability. Santé Canada encourages the Canadians to integrate the physical-activity in their daily newspaper -- to the house, to the school, work, the play and in your displacements… carry out a physically active life!

In the children, the regular physical-activity optimizes the growth and the development. In the adult, it returns the execution of the daily tasks easier and less exhausting. At the elder ones, the activities using weight prevent the reduction in the osseous density or osteoporosis; the regular physical-activity supports a greater force, flexibility, balance and coordination; helps to reduce the risks of falls; prolong the autonomous life.To be active reinforces not only the body, but supports also the greater comfort.What you can doThe physical-activity is accessible to everyone. No need to run a marathon or to spend the hours to the gym; there are very simple means to remain active like, for example:

* to go to every day;
* to use the staircases instead of the elevator;
* to spend less time in front of the television set or the computer;
* to play with the children;
* for short displacements, to go, pedal or roll to shoes;
* to use the cycle tracks or the paths of walk of the vicinity.

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