JointHealth™ express September 23, 2010
September is Arthritis Awareness Month in Canada
As a person living with arthritis or someone informed about the disease, you may already know that September is Arthritis Awareness Month in Canada, but many still do not.
Here is what the Federal Government has been doing to help raise awareness about a disease that affects 4.3 million Canadians:.
The Chronic Disease Surveillance and Monitoring Division (at the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control) of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) initiated several projects for the month of September with the following goals:
Please forward this JointHealth™ express to your friends, family, and colleagues to help get Canadians talking about arthritis so that a cure may be found.
September is Arthritis Awareness Month in Canada
As a person living with arthritis or someone informed about the disease, you may already know that September is Arthritis Awareness Month in Canada, but many still do not.
Here is what the Federal Government has been doing to help raise awareness about a disease that affects 4.3 million Canadians:.
The Chronic Disease Surveillance and Monitoring Division (at the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control) of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) initiated several projects for the month of September with the following goals:
- To raise public awareness on arthritis prevention, management, and treatment options, and to dispel myths about arthritis
- To highlight the recent release of the 2010 Arthritis Surveillance report entitled, "Life with Arthritis in Canada: A personal and public health challenge"
- To inform the public about the Government of Canada's efforts towards the prevention and management of arthritis
- An arthritis feature on the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) website. This web feature summarizes the information contained in the 2010 Arthritis Surveillance report
- Getting the word out via social media. Twitter accounts and Facebook pages were created in order to reach a broader audience and to bring more traffic to the PHAC arthritis landing page. If you have a Twitter account, you may follow PHAC, by going to http://twitter.com/phac_gc. The PHAC Facebook page is also a very useful resource. To find other PHAC related mobile and social media tools, please go to: http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/sm-ms/index-eng.php.
Please forward this JointHealth™ express to your friends, family, and colleagues to help get Canadians talking about arthritis so that a cure may be found.
Arthritis Consumer Experts
ACE thanks Arthritis Research Canada (ARC) for its scientific review of ACE and JointHealth™ information and education programs.