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SubscribeSafe Kids Week
Did you know? June 7-14 is Parachute Canada’s Safe Kids Week, which is an annual public awareness campaign about preventable childhood injuries. The 2014 Safe Kids week theme is Safe Swimming, Safe Splashing, Safe Kids, which highlights the importance of water safety and drowning prevention.
One Life One You Team Celebrates 2014 World No Tobacco Day
London, ON – The Middlesex-London Health Unit’s One Life One You team is joining forces with about 50 teens and youth from the eight health units that make up the Southwest Tobacco Control Area Network (SW TCAN) to celebrate World No Tobacco Day tomorrow. This year’s celebration will be held at Tecumseh Park in Chatham, where the One Life One You and youth from the SW TCAN will take part in the Chatham-Kent Youth Festival.
Campaign Aims to Decrease Road Injuries by Reminding Drivers and Cyclists to Share the Road
Middlesex Centre, ON – Encouraged by warmer temperatures and drawn by a desire to be active, more and more cyclists are riding city streets and county roads. As bicycle riders and motorists find themselves increasingly sharing roadways, the London Middlesex Road Safety Committee has launched an awareness campaign to prevent collision-related injuries and deaths. Using an approach that combines traditional media with highly visible signage, the Share the Road campaign encourages drivers and cyclists to be courteous and respectful of one another, while providing safety margins for vehicles that pass bikes.
Media Advisory: How Wide is a Metre? Share the Road Campaign to Launch in Komoka
The London Middlesex Road Safety Committee will launch its new Share the Road awareness campaign this Thursday outside the Komoka Wellness and Recreation Complex in Middlesex Centre. The campaign is aimed at both drivers and cyclists and highlights the need to provide a space of at least one metre between bicycles and motor vehicles using public roadways.
New Program Aims To Prevent Overdose Deaths in London
London, ON – According to the Chief Coroner of Ontario, 41 people in London and Middlesex County died of prescription opioid drug overdoses in 2012, more than triple the figure from 2011, and double the provincial rate. The human and health-related costs associated with overdose have reached a tipping point, requiring a response from community organizations committed to harm reduction and health promotion. Starting in June, London InterCommunity Health Centre, Regional HIV/AIDS Connection (RHAC), the Middlesex-London Health Unit and the London Area Network of Substance Users (LANSU) will roll out a program to distribute naloxone in the community. Naloxone is a fast-acting, safe and proven opioid overdose-reversing medication.
Skin Cancer Prevention Act Increases Protection For Youth
Starting today, it’s lights out for one of the biggest cancer risk factors for Ontario youth. Ontario’s Skin Cancer Prevention Act, the new provincial law that bans tanning bed operators from providing ultraviolet light treatments to anyone under the age of 18, came into effect today. The World Health Organization has classified tanning beds in its highest cancer risk category, which includes asbestos and tobacco. The Act also requires tanning bed operators to ask for identification from anyone who appears to under the age of 25.
[Upcoming] Nicotine Replacement Therapy Workshops
Do you want to quit smoking? The Middlesex-London Health Unit is hosting workshops in London to help you quit.
May is Speech and Hearing Awareness Month
Did you know? May is Speech and Hearing awareness month. It’s important to know if your baby can hear, and if your child is talking like other children the same age.
National Immunization Awareness Week: Vaccines are Your Best Defence
London, ON – National Immunization Awareness Week begins tomorrow and runs until Saturday, May 3rd. The week highlights vaccination programs as the best defence against infectious disease, preventing more deaths than any other health intervention.
Delegates Gather in London for National Conference on Healthy Schools
For the next two days, more than 400 educators, health professionals, parents, students and community members from across Canada will learn what it takes to make healthy schools and healthy communities. Entitled Coming Together: Supporting the Whole Child, the National Healthy Schools Conference is being held today and tomorrow at London’s Hilton Hotel and Conference Centre. The Conference will focus on the links between mental, physical and emotional health as well as physical literacy, and the role they all play in developing and sustaining healthy school environments.