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Welcome to the Canadian Best Practices Portal

This Portal provides you with resources and solutions to plan programs for promoting health and preventing diseases in your community. The site consolidates multiple sources of trusted and credible information in one place, making it a one-stop shop for busy health professionals and decision-makers.

What's New?

Aboriginal Physical Activity Case Studies E-Learning Series

French Webinar, on May 28, 2013 from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. EST
To register for this webinar, please click here:
https://student.gototraining.com/r/8254792803284199424

Oral Health

The Canadian Dental Association has indicated that oral health contributes to physical, mental, and social well-being, and the enjoyment of life’s possibilities, by allowing the individual to speak, eat, and socialize unhindered by pain, discomfort, or embarrassment. With this in mind, a new Oral Health Public Health Topic has been launched on the Canadian Best Practices Portal which complements the interventions found in Oral Health Promotion.

Featured Best Practices

• Food Security

  What are the impacts of practices such as food banks, collective kitchens and farmers markets on food security? Discover the evidence on these and other food security practice questions in this featured section...Read more

• Preventing Violence

  The Promoting Relationships and Eliminating Violence Network (PREVNet) has systematically reviewed violence prevention programs from around the world to identify 38 effective interventions...Read more

• School Nutrition Policies

  School nutrition policies and strategies to support food security have an impact on eating habits and nutritional intake, but what do we know about what works in practice? Dietitians of Canada has developed public health nutrition practice guidance on these two important topics...Read more