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HealthLink BC Files are easy-to-understand fact sheets about public health and safety. Files are available as printable PDFs and can be found at many local public health units.
Files are created, reviewed and updated in collaboration with subject matter experts throughout the province and with clinical and dietitian teams at HealthLink BC. They provide information on health topics like:
- Childhood and adult disease prevention
- Infant vision and dental care
- Immunizations
- Environmental health hazards
- Advice on travel on vaccinations and precautions to take while travelling
- Food safety and how to avoid food poisoning
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AIDS
- HIV and HIV tests (#08m)
Air Pollution
- Indoor air quality (#65a)
Allergies
Birth Control Pills
- Emergency Contraception (EC) (#91b)
Calcium
- Calcium and Your Health (#68e)
Chickenpox
- Facts About Chickenpox (#44a)
Child Development
- Time for Bed (#92e)
- Toilet Learning (#92d)
- Your child's feelings (#92c)
Child Nutrition
- Baby's first foods (#69c)
- Lunches to Go (#69f)
Childhood Immunization
Childhood Vaccines
- Hepatitis B infant vaccine (#25c)
- Polio Vaccine (IPV) (#13)
Cigarettes
- Quitting smoking (#30c)
Constipation
Contraception
- Emergency Contraception (EC) (#91b)
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
DEET
Diphtheria
E-coli
- E. coli Infection (#02)
Elder Abuse Prevention
Eye Problems
- Ultraviolet Radiation (#11)
Flesh-Eating Disease
Flu
Fluoridation
- Water Fluoridation Facts (#28)
Folic Acid
Food Cleanup
- Clean-up After a Flood (#20)
Food Safety
- E. coli Infection (#02)
- Campylobacter Infection (#58)
- Salmonellosis (#17)
- Toxoplasmosis (#43)
Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
Harm Reduction
Hearing
- Hearing loss in adults (#71c)
- Hearing Loss in Children (#71a)
Hepatitis and Nutrition
High Blood Pressure
Immune Globulin
- Hepatitis B immune globulin (#25b)
- Immune Globulin (#63)
Influenza
Lyme Disease
- Tick bites and disease (#01)
Mice
Milk
- Pasteurized and raw milk (#03)
Neural Tube Defects
Nitrates in Well Water
- Nitrate in well water (#05a)
- Well water testing (#05b)
Nutrition
- Baby's first foods (#69c)
- Calcium and Your Health (#68e)
- Dietary Fats and Your Health (#68f)
- Fibre and Your Health (#68h)
- Healthy snacks for adults (#68i)
- Iron and Your Health (#68c)
- Iron in Foods (#68d)
Opioid
Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
- Pertussis (Whooping Cough) (#15c)
Polio Vaccine
- Polio Vaccine (IPV) (#13)
Pregnancy
- HIV testing in pregnancy (#38a)
- Pregnancy and alcohol use (#38d)
- Pregnancy and dental health (#38b)
- Rubella (#14d)
- The Pregnant Traveller (#41g)
- Toxoplasmosis (#43)
Rabies
- Rabies (#07a)
Rats and Mice
Salmonellosis
- Salmonellosis (#17)
Seniors Flu Vaccinations
Sewage Disposal Systems
Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI)
- Cervicitis (#08f)
- Bacterial vaginosis (BV) (#08g)
- Chlamydia (#08l)
- Genital herpes (#08d)
- Gonorrhea (#08a)
- HIV and HIV tests (#08m)
- Molluscum contagiosum (#08i)
- Pubic lice (#08h)
- Syphilis (#08e)
- Trichomoniasis (#08p)
- Urethritis (#08b)
- Vaginal yeast infection (#08j)
Shingles
- Facts About Chickenpox (#44a)
Smoking
- Quit or reduce vaping (#30d)
- Quitting smoking (#30c)
Spina Bifida
TB
- Tuberculosis (TB) (#51a)
- Tuberculosis (TB) skin test (#51d)
Tetanus
Traveller's Diarrhea
- Traveller's Diarrhea (#41e)
Ultrasound
- Prenatal ultrasound (#116)
Ultraviolet Radiation
- Sun Safety for Children (#26)
- Ultraviolet Radiation (#11)
Vision Problems for Children
Vitamin D
- Vitamin D and Your Health (#68n)
Water-borne Infections in British Columbia
- Disinfecting Drinking Water (#49b)
- Giardia Infection (#10)
- Nitrate in well water (#05a)
- Toxoplasmosis (#43)
Well Water Safety
- Nitrate in well water (#05a)
- Well water testing (#05b)
West Nile Virus
- West Nile virus (#88)
Whooping Cough
- Pertussis (Whooping Cough) (#15c)