Ontario. Health Promotion and Wellness Program

• Health Promotion and Wellness Program

• Ontario. Health Promotion Branch (1987-1998)

• Ontario. Health Promotion Program (1998-2002)

The Health Promotion and Wellness Program was originally created in 1987 as the Health Promotion Branch of the Ministry of Health.

The Branch reported to the Assistant Deputy Minister, Community and Public Health. In 1990, it was brought under the Community Health Programs Division (renamed Community Health Division in 1992). It 1997, it was moved to the Institutional Health and Services Group.

In 1998, the Health Promotion Branch became the Health Promotion Program, a unit of the Community and Health Promotion Programs Branch, Health Systems Management Division.

In 2002, the Health Promotion Program (part of the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care since 1999) was renamed the Health Promotion and Wellness Program, and moved to the Public Health Branch.

In 2004, the Health Promotion and Wellness Program was moved to the Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Branch.

Throughout most of its history, Health Promotion and Wellness Program has been divided into small sections responsibile for various aspects of health promotion. The initial division was between the Policy Unit, the Social Marketing Unit (responsible for provice-wide and demonstration programs) and the Community Development Unit (responsible for programs funding various community-based health promotion activities).

From the mid-1990s onwards, there were a number of internal re-organisations of the Branch, which resulted in the creation of units focusing on specific health promotion programs, such as the Tobacco Unit, the Alcohol and Other Drugs Unit, and the Nutrition and Physical Activity Unit.

In June, 2005, health promotion became the responsibility of the newly formed Ministry of Health Promotion, where these activities were distributed across a number of units.

The Health Promotion and Wellness Program provided leadership in the development, implementation and evaluation of community-based and province-wide health promotion programs. Initiatives included heart disease prevention and heart health programs; programs to reduce use of tobacco, alcohol and drugs; women's, children's and aboriginal (native) health programs; cancer prevention programs; healthy eating and physical activity programs; and the Ontario Health Prevention Resources System.

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