Online Resources and Information for Health Care Professionals

 

Community Care

• Stroke Education – highlights a series of DVDs for the community about stroke prevention, caring for the stroke survivor and stroke rehabilitation
• Toronto Public Library – a consumer health information service
• Stroke Recovery Canada
• Stroke Survivors Association of Ottawa
• Ontario Community Support Association
• Community Care Access Centres
• Ontario Long Term Care Association
• Seniors’ Info Portal
• Ontario’s Senior’s Secretariat
• The Self Help Resource Centre
• Health Services for South West Ontario
• Aphasia Solutions Network

 

Health Promotion & Stroke Prevention

• Alberta Centre for Active Living – this website highlights evidence based information for professionals who promote physical activity
• Brief Hypertension Action Tools – This tool is intended to be used by a health care professional to inform and engage a patient with hypertension to become more active in their care. The flexible tool involves 3 actions that can be done in one session or in separate sessions.
• Canadian Heart Health Strategy and Action Plan – a strategy developed to reduce the growing burden and loss due to cardiovascular disease in Canada
• Canadian Hypertension Society established by Canadian health professionals interested in improving hypertension research, education and patient care.
• Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada – the website of national and provincial organizations and networks who share a common vision for an integrated chronic disease prevention system in Canada
• Health Communication Unit – at the Centre for Health Promotion, University of Toronto
• Heart Health Resource Centre – anticipates and meets the needs of public health agencies and their communities in chronic disease prevention programming
• Integrated Health Promotion – a practice guide for service providers
• Key to Women’s Health – a health promotion framework to prevent stroke among marginalized women
• Ontario Health Promotion Resource System – supports health promotion in Ontario
• Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion
• Ontario Women’s Health Quarterly E-Bulletin – dedicated to the important topic of women and stroke
• Prevent Stroke – helping Ontario health care providers find programs and services that can help prevent stroke
• Public Health Agency of Canada – Population Health Promotion: An Integrated Model of Population Health and Health Promoti
• Sodium101
  A new website from the Canadian Stroke Network designed to educate the general public about hidden sodium (salt) in food and what you can do to avoid it.
• Towards Evidence Informed Practice – a project in chronic disease prevention
• University of Toronto – Centre for Health Promotion

 

Rehabilitation

• The Aphasia Institute dedicated to reducing language barriers to full life participation at local, provincial, national and international levels
• Evidence Based Review of Stroke Rehabilitation
• StrokEngine – A site focused on stroke rehabilitation and interventions

 

Research

• Canadian Health Services Research Foundation – tools to help organizations create, share and use research.
• Cochrane Collaboration – Improving healthcare decision-making globally, through systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare interventions

 

Resources for Providers Across the Continuum

• Government of Canada Rural Information Service – a clearinghouse for information relevant to rural Canada
• Health Canada
• Global Cardiovascular Infobase – Epidemiological Profiles of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Diseases in the World
• Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care
• The Extra Mural Program is a comprehensive range of coordinated health care services for people of all ages for the purpose of promoting, maintaining or restoring health within the context of their daily lives.