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Preventive dental health services are offered to students in Kindergarten, Grade 1 and Grade 2 to prevent tooth decay.
AHS (Alberta Health Services) health zones partner with schools in low income neighborhoods to provide preventive dental services at school.
Information about services along with a consent form is sent home to all students in eligible schools. A parent or legal guardian signature is required for service.
Wheel chair access available.
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Hearing screening is offered every other Wednesday and is available by appointment only.
The program aims to identify permanent hearing loss early and provide necessary follow-up services and support to families when needed.
Services include:
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All babies born in Alberta, or born to parents residing in Alberta are eligible for screening within 90 days of birth.
Additional eligibility requirements exist based on the baby’s age and health status.
Children only need to have a few teeth to start getting fluoride. Applications are given 4 times, once every 6 months. For eligibility information visit our website.
At the appointment:
If the child has asthma, bring his or her asthma reliever medicine to the appointment.This provincial prevention service is available in all AHS (Alberta Health Services) zones.
Low German interpretation is available in South and Central Zones.
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General Radiography uses x-rays to produce images of the structures inside the body, particularly bones. X-ray beams can pass through the body, but they are absorbed in different amounts depending on the density of the material they pass through.
An estimated wait time will be provided at the time of appointment booking.
The Population Health Promotion Program (PHPP) provides services on an individual client basis as well as to high-risk groups and the broad community utilizing a population health approach. The population health approach focuses on the entire range of individual and community factors that determine health. The Key ”Determinants of Health” include: Income and Social Status, Social Support Networks, Education and Literacy, Employment and Working Conditions, Social Environments, Physical Environments, Personal Health Practices and Coping Skills, Healthy Child Development, Biology and Genetic Endowment, Health Services, Gender, Culture.
The overall goal of this approach is to maintain and improve the health status of the entire population, reduce the incidence of disease and injury, and to eliminate inequities in health status between population groups.
Services encompass a continuum of health action from pre-conception to old age. Specific strategies are in line with those described in the World Health Organization’s Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (1986) and include:
The program links with Provincial Population and Public Health Programs to deliver a wide range of health promotion interventions, including:
Group classes are offered on evenings or weekends. It is best to start the classes early in your pregnancy.
Classes provide information about:
Fees may apply for some classes.
Fees may be waived depending on individual circumstances. Please discuss when you call to register.
The four areas that are covered by public health nurses include:
Wait times vary.
There are fees for prenatal and travel health service.
Services are offered to eligible schools and may include:
A child diagnosed with asthma must have their short acting asthma reliever medication with them to receive service.
Services offered:
Feeding and swallowing services:
- coughing / choking - breathing changes / gasping - watering eyes - sweating - face becomes red - won’t eat or drink certain food or fluids
A delay or disorder in the area of communication for individual services.
Open eligibility for training, inservicing or universal services.
Promotes awareness of the possible risk of communicable disease when travelling and ways to prevent them. Travel Health can also give travel immunizations. Not all services are offered at all locations. The services below are offered on a fee-for-service basis:
Book your appointment at least 6 to 8 weeks before you leave to make sure there is enough time to have all your immunizations.
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Wait times vary for an appointment.
There are fees associated with Travel Services and may range from an average of $48.00 to $200.00 per person.
Offers free tuberculosis (TB) skin testing to eligible Albertans. The Mantoux skin test is not recommended to diagnose TB.
Testing is done at public health centres throughout the province:
If you are not eligible for free testing but still need to be tested there will be a charge for the test.
For travel or work related TB testing contact the Travel Health Services in your area. With the exception of Edmonton, you would contact the Immunization Business Unit to have school or work-related TB skin testing done.
Eligibility includes:
There is a charge for anyone not meeting the eligibility criteria.
