Exploring the Health Canada Web Site             NAME:

 

Step 1 – go to:              http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/index_e.html

 

Step 2 - Click on About Health Canada.

 

1. What is Health Canada?

 

 

2. What is Health CanadaÕs Goal?

 

 

3. What does Health Canada rely on to achieve this goal?

 

 

Step 3 – Click on Consumer Product Safety. Click on ChildrenÕs Products.

 

4. What should a person do if they have a baby walker?

 

 

Step 4 – Click on Diseases & Conditions.

 

5. What are two categories of disease that you can find information on at this location?

 

 

Step 5 – Click on Drugs and Health Products.

 

6. What two things does the department strive to maintain a balance between with all drugs and health products?

 

 

Step 6 – Click on Emergencies & Disasters.

 

7. Give an example of a natural event.

 

 

8. Give an example of an emergency.

 

 

Step 7 - Click on Environmental & Workplace Health

 

9. What are two of the environmental factors that this section gives information or advice on?

 

 

 

Step 8 – Click on First Nations & Inuit Health. Click on Diseases & Health Conditions.

 

10. How do the rates of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and tuberculosis infection among First Nations people compare to the general Canadian population?

 

 

Step 9 – Click on Science & Research.

 

11. What type of decisions does scientific research contribute to?

 

 

12. What does scientific expertise allow Health Canada to do?

 

 

Step 10 – Click on About Science & Research.

 

13. Give three examples of the applied science activities performed every day by Health Canada.

 

 

Step 11 – Click on Food & Nutrition. Click on CanadaÕs Food Guide.  Take the Guided Tour. When done close that window.

 

Step 12 - Click on ÒMy Food GuideÓ. Complete yours by selecting your food and activity choices. When you have completed it, print it and attach it to this page. Close that window.

 

Step 13 – Click on Food Labelling. Click on the Topic of Nutrition & Health Claims.

 

14. What is the difference between a Nutrition Claim and a Health Claim?

 

 

 

 

Step 14 – Click on Food Labelling. Click on the Topic of Allergen Labelling.

 

15. Regulations require that most prepackaged foods carry a label and that their ingredients appear in what order?