Books and Publications

Books and Publications

Note: All resources are available to workplaces within Waterloo Region

Public Health Resource Centre Resources         

Healthy Pregnancy
Reproductive Hazards of the Workplace/Frazier Hage (1998)

Mother Friendly Workplaces
Creating a breastfeeding friendly workplace. Ontario Public Health Association (1996)
National breastfeeding guidelines for health care providers. Watters, Nancy E. (1996)
A practical workbook to protect, promote and support breastfeeding in community based programs. Government Services Canada (2002)
Protecting Infant health: making the code work. INFACT (1994)
The Baby-friendly initiative in community health service. (2002)

Osteoporosis Prevention
Body basics: Beat Osteoporosis, build better bones.
Bone vivant! Calcium-enhanced recipes and bone-building exercises

       
Physical Activity
Active Living Every Day-20 Weeks to Lifelong Vitality, Blair et al.   
Body Break - Keep Fit and Have Fun, Johnson, Hal and Joanne McLeod.   
Fitness Motivation-Preventing Participant Dropout, Rejeski, Jack (1988)

Substance Misuse Prevention
Let's Take Action on Alcohol Problems in the Workplace: A practical guide to policy development for employers, employees and others concerned about health, safety and liability (2004 - Alcohol Policy Network)       

Booking Resource Centre Resources
       

If you would like to borrow our books and publications contact the Resource Centre by email or by phone (519-883-2256)
      
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      Organization name
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The Public Health Resource Centre has several publications, click here to browse the database

Project Health Resources: For booking call 519-883-2287