Determinants of Health
The determinants of health are a range of factors that impact your health in positive or negative ways.
Having access to doctors, nurse practitioners, RNs, dentists, dietitians and physiotherapists for example.
How we interact with one another in social behaviours and norms in a wide variety of social groups.
- Celebrating Local Food
- Leeds Grenville Immigration Portal
- Move to Lanark
- Brockville Newcomers Club
- Lanark County Tourism
- St. Lawrence-Rideau Immigration Partnership
- Lanark Immigration Partnership
- Discover Leeds Grenville
- Baha’i Community of Brockville
- Refugees for Brockville
- Chinese and Canadian Heritage Association – for more information, Peter Au: peter00au@gmail.com
- Francophone Immigration Support Network of Eastern Ontario
Building meaningful relationships with Indigenous people.
A disability is a physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements, senses, or activities.
A healthy start in life is the building block for health over the life span.
Having access to higher education and being able to read, write and say what we need to be healthy.
We spend a lot of time in the workplace and it can affect our health.
- Employment and Education Centre
- Family-Friendly Workplace policies including workplace food environment
Community food security is a result of a healthy food system.
The gender you were born with or identify with may increase or decrease your health and well-being.
Housing keeps you safe, makes you feel good and included in your community.
How much money we make is the most important piece in helping us to take care of ourselves.
- Basic Income Guarantee Pilot
- Minimum Wage
- Old Age Pension
- Child Benefit
- Living Wage
- How to become a Living Wage Employer
- Leeds, Grenville and Lanark Living Wage Report
- Food Insecurity in Leeds, Grenville and Lanark
- Fruit and Vegetable Consumption and Food Security Summary Report: Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit, 2017
Personal health practices are the things you do every day to take care of your body and mind.
How we build and navigate in our communities.
- Green Spaces
- Community Design including Growing Food
- Bike Paths
- Walking Routes
- Schools
- Public Transportation
Who you are sexually attracted to.
Social Inclusion – feeling welcomed, feeling like you belong, feeling safe.
Social Exclusion – feeling embarrassed, feeling shame, feeling unwelcomed, feeling unsafe.
Who we turn to for help and fun. Might be family, friends, neighbours, co-workers or parishioners.
- Healthy Relationships
- Peer Support
- Places of Worship
- Professional Development
- Recreation