Organization

c/o Health Nexus
180 Dundas Street West, Suite 1900

Toronto, Ontario
  M5G 1Z8
Telephone: 416.408.2249


Toll-free within Ontario: 1.800.397.9567 


Fax: 416.408.2122
Email: beststart@healthnexus.ca
http://www.beststart.org/index_eng.html

Health Fairs and Preconception, Prenatal and Child Health is available online at http://www.beststart.org/resources/howto/index.html.  More information including other resources, events, links and research is available at http://www.beststart.org.

Ontario Injury Prevention Resource Centre helps injury prevention practitioners reduce injury in Ontario. The Economic Burden of Injury in Canada, SMARTRISK report is available on the Ontario Injury Prevention Resource Centre website at http://www.oninjuryresources.ca/news_archive/canadas_injury_burden_almos...

Canadian Institute for Health Information is an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides essential data and analysis on Canada’s health system and the health of Canadians. CIHI tracks data in many areas, thanks to information supplied by hospitals, regional health authorities, medical practitioners and governments. Other sources provide further data to help inform CIHI’s in-depth analytic reports. The CIHI website includes research and reports, data and standards at http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/splash.html.

The Ontario Rural Council acts as a catalyst for rural dialogue, collaboration, action and advocacy, and offers a vital venue for the province's collective rural voice. Individually, each of TORC’s members shares a commitment to healthy, vibrant rural communities, businesses and organizations. Collectively, it identifies and discusses complex rural issues through a collaborative approach that ultimately serves to strengthen the rural voice in Ontario and communicates to the province's policy- and decision-makers.

The Gateway Rural Health Research Institute is the brainchild of a group of residents and healthcare professionals in a rural Ontario community in Huron County who propose to create a centre to research healthcare issues in rural populations, the first community-driven rural research centre in Canada. Most of healthcare-related research conducted in Canada and elsewhere is based on results of surveys taken of test populations close to large urban medical centres of learning or practice, with projections of results for rural sector populations.

http://www.adcouncil.org

http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/imc/

The website for the school includes curriculum information and information about Integrated Marketing Communication for Behavioral Impact (IMC/COMBI) in health and social development.

NCC for Aboriginal Health (NCCAH)
http://www.nccah-ccnsa.ca/

c/o Ontario Public Health Association
700 Lawrence Avenue West, Suite 310
Toronto, ON M6A 3B4
Tel: (416) 367-3313 x247 (Toll-free 1-800-267-6817 x 247)
Fax: (416) 367-2844
lrysdale@opha.on.ca
http://www.nutritionrc.ca

The Nutrition Resource Centre website includes resources, programs, a list serv, and news and events.

For more information contact Lee Rysdale, MEd, RD, Program Coordinator, Nutrition Resource Centre, at the coordinates above.

NutriSTEP® (Nutrition Screening Tool for Every Preschooler) is a fast and simple way to assess eating habits and identify nutrition problems early in young children 3–5 years of age. The NutriSTEP® questionnaire includes 17 items covering: food and nutrient intake, physical growth, developmental and physical capabilities, physical activity, food security and the feeding environment.