2017
Reality check: Should you wash your hands in warm or cold water?
June 1, 2017
“It’s just important to make hand washing part of your everyday routine,” Culbert says. “It is probably the single most effective activity we have to reduce the spread of disease, especially during cold and flu season. And while for you it might not seem like it has a major impact, but for those people around you who may have compromised or weakened immune systems, it could make a big difference.”
Opinion: It's time for Montreal to fluoridate its drinking water
May 26, 2017
Organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Canadian Public Health Association (CHPA) and the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux (MSSS) cite research that shows that fluoridation of municipal drinking water reduces caries in the entire population.
The war on drugs has been lost
May 18, 2017
In a recent Canadian Public Health Association discussion paper, “A New Approach to Managing Illegal Psychoactive Substances in Canada,” the point was made emphatically that our current approach to managing risk is not working. Here are some of its highlights.
It takes a community to combat senior loneliness and depression
May 4, 2017
The National Institute on Aging and the Canadian Public Health Association concur: Seniors living in North America are currently experiencing better health longevity now than during any other time in the past century.
Statistics Canada to examine health of Peterborough-area residents
May 3, 2017
National organizations such as the Canadian Public Health Association and the Heart and Stroke Foundation have shown their support for the survey.
Canadian Health Measures Survey to examine health of Peterborough residents
May 3, 2017
Well-known national organizations, such as the Canadian Public Health Association and the Heart and Stroke Foundation, have shown their support for the survey.
Why stop with pot? Let’s decriminalize all drugs
April 10, 2017
Decriminalizing drugs is not a radical idea – at least not once you dispense with the hysteria. Mainstream groups like the Canadian Public Health Association support decriminalization because, when you look at the science dispassionately, it works.
Family doc's hip hop video urges safe sex for seniors
March 21, 2017
Ian Culbert, the executive director of the Canadian Public Health Association, says the problem of STI’s among seniors is not a new one, but it’s still not a topic getting talked about much.
Seniors are often surviving longer than their marriages do, and many are staying healthy and staying sexually active, often with more than one partner.
“Seniors are aging well, staying healthy longer, and being sexually active is just a normal part of human development,” Culbert told CTV News Channel from Ottawa Tuesday.
If seniors aren’t using condoms and getting STI…
Heat and health: Doctors taking the pulse of the planet on climate change
March 21, 2017
To be fair, Canadian doctors have spoken out on the dangers of climate change; both the Canadian Public Health Association and the Canadian Medical Association have taken stands.