Public Health Units (PHU)

Year
2011 - 2012
Abstract

This series contains the boundaries for Public Health Units (PHU) and Public Health Unit Office Locations in Ontario.

A Public Health Unit is an official health agency established by a group of urban and rural municipalities to provide a more efficient community health program. There are 36 Public Health Units in Ontario.

Health units administer health promotion and disease prevention programs to inform the public about healthy life-styles, communicable disease control including education in STDs/AIDS, immunization, food premises inspection, healthy growth and development including parenting education, health education for all age groups and selected screening services. PHUs and Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) represent administrative Health Regions in Ontario.

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Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. Public Health Units (PHU) [digital resource: vector]. Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, (insert date). Retrieved from http://geo.scholarsportal.info/#r/details/_uri@=1769299351.

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Location:
Ontario
Subjects:
Health