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- Arthritis
- Assault
- Breastfeeding
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Diabetes Care
- Gastroenterology (GI)
- Geriatrics
- Heart Disease
- Hypertension
- Immunizations
- Incontinence
- Infectious Disease
- Medication use
- Menopause
- Mental Health & Addiction
- Musculoskeletal
- Neurology
- Nutrition
- Osteoporosis
- Pain
- Pediatrics
- Prenatal Care
- Postpartum Care
- Respirology
- Rheumatology
- Sexual Health
- Additional Resources
- Assaulted Women's Helpline - 1-866-863-0511 or 1-416-863-0511
- Breastfeeding (pdf)
- See Postpartum Care for more resources
- Heart & Stroke Foundation
- Nutrition – see Nutrition Tab for more information
- Canadian Diabetes Association
- Diabetes and your feet (handout)
- Diabetes Ontario
- Insulin
- Tips for healthy eating, diabetes prevention and management (handout)
- Alzheimer Society of Toronto
- Community Navigation and Access Program (CNAP) connects seniors and their care providers to support services in Toronto – http://www.cnap.ca/
- Constipation (handout)
- Falls: How to reduce your risk (handout)
- Living Will: Advance directives (handout)
- Ontario Seniors’ Secretariat provides information and resources for seniors – http://www.seniors.gov.on.ca/
- Tips for safe medication use (handout)
- Urinary Incontinence (handout)
- Heart & Stroke Foundation
- Nutrition – see Nutrition Tab for more information
- Hypertension (handout)
- Hypertension Canada
- Hypertension Canada: Blood Pressure Home Measurement (video)
- Nutrition: DASH Diet: Your guide to lowering your blood pressure with DASH (handout)
- Nutrition: Hypertension: Healthy Eating for Healthy Blood Pressure (handout)
- Nutrition: Hypertension: Salt and Sodium (handout); http://www.sodium101.ca/
- A Guide for Parents, Caregivers and Children on How to Reduce Vaccine Injection Pain in Children (handout)
- Herpes Zoster (Shingles) vaccine info (handout)
- HPV Information (handout)
- Immunization & Vaccines (Toronto Public Health)
- Immunization: Get the facts (handout)
- Immunize Canada
- Immunization Package – complete information on immunization for parents prior to 2 month visit (20 pages)
- Immunization schedule cheat sheet (handout)
- Meningococcal vaccine info (handout)
- MMR vaccine info (handout)
- 5 in 1 (Pediacel) and 4 in 1 (Quadracel) vaccine info (handout)
- Pneumococcal vaccine Info (handout)
- Rotavirus vaccine Info (handout)
- Tetanus & Diptheria (Td) vaccine info (handout)**
- Tetanus-Diptheria-Pertussis (Tdap; Adacel) vaccine info (handout)**
- Varicella Vaccine Info (handout)
- Bed Bugs fact sheet (Toronto Public Health)
- C. Difficile fact sheet (Toronto Public Health)
- Head Lice fact sheet (Toronto Public Health)
- Molluscum Contagiosum (Toronto Public health; handout)
- Shingles (Herpes Zoster)
- Al-Anon – 1-888-4AL-ANON (1-888-425-2666), http://al-anon.alateen.on.ca/
- Canadian Cancer Society Smokers' Helpline - 1-877-513-5333,href="http://smokershelpline.ca/
- Drug and Alcohol Registry of Treatment (DART) provides information about drug and alcohol treatment available in Ontario - 1-800-565-8603 (24 hours), http://www.drugandalcoholhelpline.ca
- Mood Disorders Association of Ontario offers free support programs to people across Ontario, and their families, who are living with depression, anxiety or bipolar disorder – http://www.mooddisorders.ca/
- Mood Gym teaches cognitive behaviour therapy skills for preventing and coping with depression - http://www.moodgym.anu.edu.au
- Quit Smoking Canada (handout) http://www.itscanadastime.com/en/home/
- Ankle Sprain(1); Ankle Sprain (2) (handouts)
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (handout)
- Knee Osteoarthritis (handout)
- Low back pain Back Pain(handout)
- Neck & Shoulder Exercises (handout)
- Patello-Femoral Syndrome (handout)
- Plantar Fasciitis (handout)
- Rotator cuff exercises
- Shoulder Bursitis & Tendinitis (handout)
- Tennis and Golfer’s Elbow (handout); Tennis Elbow Practice Tips
- Trochanteric Bursitis (handout)
- Calcium Calculator (handout)
- Calcium: Food Sources (handout)
- Canada’s Food Guide
- Cholesterol: Heart Healthy Eating (handout)
- DASH Diet: Your guide to lowering your blood pressure with DASH (handout)
- Diabetes: Tips for healthy eating, diabetes prevention and management (handout)
- Dieticians of Canada
- Eat Right Ontario
- Feeding your Baby (Best Start booklet – 28 pages)
- Feeding your Preschooler (handout)
- Feeding your Toddler (handout)
- Fibre (handout)
- Healthy Eating (handout)
- Healthy Snacks (handout)
- Heartburn (handout)
- Hypertension: Healthy Eating for Healthy Blood Pressure (handout)
- Nutrition: Hypertension: Salt and Sodium (handout); http://www.sodium101.ca/
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS; handout)
- Lactose Intolerance (handout)
- Losing Weight without Going on a Diet (handout)
- Osteoporosis: Nutrition (handout)
- Sample Menu Plan (handout)
- Triglycerides: Heart Healthy Eating (handout)
- Vegan Diet: Eating Guidelines (handout)
- Vegetarian Diet: Eating Guidelines (handout)
- What to Feed Your Baby: Sample Meals for Baby in the First Year (handout)
- When your child needs more calories (handout)
- Calcium Calculator (handout)
- Calcium: Food Sources (handout)
- Osteoporosis Canada
- Osteoporosis Canada: Nutrition (handout)
- About Kids Health provides trusted answers from The Hospital for Sick Children – http://www.aboutkidshealth.ca/
- Canadian Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (SIDS) - 1-800-363-7437 or 1-416-488-3260, http://www.sidscanada.org
- Car Seat Safety (Transport Canada) - Car Seat Safety (Transport Canada)
- Caring for Kids (Canadian Paediatric Society) provides information for parents from Canada’s pediatricians - http://www.caringforkids.cps.ca/
- Colic and Crying (Caring for Kids) - Colic and Crying (Caring for Kids)
- Concussion guidelines for parents (ThinkFirst handout) - http://thinkfirst.ca
- Fever in Children (handout)
- Growing Healthy Canadians: A Guide for Positive Child Development - http://www.growinghealthykids.com
- Healthy Babies Healthy Children Program
- Immunizations – See Immunizations**
- Multilingual Pregnancy and Parenting Resources (NCT)
- Newborn Screening Ontario: Information for parents
- Nutrition: Feeding your Baby (Best Start booklet – 28 pages)
- Nutrition: Feeding your Preschooler (handout)
- Nutrition: Feeding your Toddler (handout)
- Nutrition: What to Feed Your Baby: Sample Meals for Baby in the First Year (handout)
- Nutrition: When your child needs more calories (handout)
- Ontario Early Years Centres: A place for parents and their children
- Association of Ontario Midwives - 1-866-418-3773 or 1-416-425-9974 – http://aom.on.ca/
- Depression & Anxiety (Toronto Public Health) - 416-338-7600, http://www.toronto.ca/health/pregnancy/depression/index.htm
- Doulas (DONA International)
- Durham Region Health Department Free Online Prenatal Classes
- Employment Insurance Maternity and Parental Benefits
- Health Canada Prenatal Nutrition Guidelines
- Healthy Babies Healthy Children Program
- Influenza (seasonal) Q&A for pregnant women and their families - handout
- Motherisk provides information about the effects of alcohol, as well as prescription, over-the-counter and illegal drug use during pregnancy and while breastfeeding - (416) 813-6780 (Toronto), 1-877-327-4636 (toll-free Alcohol and Substance Use Helpline), http://www.motherisk.org/
- Mount Sinai Hospital Maternal Infant Program and Perinatal Psychiatry: Program information and available support groups - http://www.mountsinai.on.ca/care/psych/patient-programs/maternal-infant-perinatal-psychiatry
- Mount Sinai Hospital Prenatal and Parenting Classes
- Mount Sinai Hospital Prenatal Resource List
- Multilingual Pregnancy and Parenting Resources (NCT)
- OTIS (Organization of Teratology Information Specialists) provides accurate evidence-based, clinical information to patients and health care professionals about exposures during pregnancy and lactation – http://www.otispregnancy.org
- Pregnancy Options (National Abortion Federation) - http://www.nafcanada.org/are-you-pregnant.html
- Pregnancy Options Workbook - http://pregnancyoptions.info/
- Therapeutic Abortion Clinics in Toronto (list)
- Best Start: Ontario’s Maternal Newborn and Early Resource Centre - Materials (free) range from fact sheets, brochures, decals, posters, DVDs to program planning guides and reports (also available in multiple languages) - http://www.beststart.org/resources/index.html
- Breastfeeding: A Perfect Latch video to learn the basics about positioning and latching your baby for breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding Instructional Videos (Region of Peel)
- Breastfeeding Resources in the GTA (list)
- Breastfeeding (Toronto Public Health)
- Milk Bank: The Rogers Hixon Ontario Human Milk Bank is a non-profit organization and a joint initiative of Mount Sinai Hospital, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre collecting, pasteurizing and distributing donated human milk
- Postpartum Depression (Canadian Mental Health Association) - 416-338-7600
- Postpartum Depression & Anxiety (Toronto Public Health )
- Pregnancy & Infant Loss Network
- Register your newborn baby (Service Ontario)
- Air Quality Health Index – www.airhealth.ca
- Asthma Action Plan (handout)
- Canadian Cancer Society Smokers' Helpline - 1-877-513-5333; http://smokershelpline.ca/
- COPD Action Plan (handout) is a tool to facilitate communication between the patient, the physician and the pharmacist
- Quit Smoking Canada (handout) - http://www.itscanadastime.com/en/home/
- Saline Nasal Irrigation: Step-by-step guide (handout)
- Living with arthritis (handout)
- RheumInfo.com provides accurate and reliable information on arthritis and musculoskeletal disorders, as well as the medications that treat them – http://www.rheuminfo.com
- Bacterial Vaginosis (BV; handout)
- Chlamydia (handout)
- Endometriosis - Information prepared by physicians, for women who may be suffering from chronic pelvic pain and infertility due to endometriosis (SOGC) – http://www.endometriosisinfo.ca
- Gonorrhea (handout)
- Hepatitis (viral)
- Herpes (genital; handout)
- HPV infection fact sheet - http://www.cdc.gov/std/HPV/STDFact-HPV.htm
- HPV vaccine information for young women - http://www.cdc.gov/std/HPV/STDFact-HPV-vaccine-young-women.htm
- Menopause (SOGC) – http://www.menopauseandu.ca
- Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID; handout)
- Pregnancy & Infant Loss Network - http://www.pailnetwork.ca/
- Pregnancy Options (National Abortion Federation)
- Pregnancy Options Workbook
- Sexual Health Clinics (Toronto Public Health)
- SexualityAndU is the ultimate Canadian web site committed to providing you accurate, credible and up-to-date information and education on sexual health (SOGC)
- Syphilis (handout)
- Syphilis & MSM(men who have sex with men; handout)
- Therapeutic Abortion Clinics in Toronto (list)
- FamilyDoctor.org– Health information from the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
- Health Care Connect: Helping you find a family doctor or nurse practitioner - 1-800-445-1822, http://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/ms/healthcareconnect/public/
