Health Sector Successes to DateThis is a picture of a health care provider explaining/teaching patients.

The Health Sector has been very successful in identifying, advocating, promoting and supporting health policy initiatives relative to health service delivery in Windsor-Essex County. The Health Sector worked extremely hard to impact change and have a positive influence on the health of Windsor-Essex Community.

Below are just a couple of the successes the Health Sector has achieved to date.

4 Small Changes Campaign

The Health Sector unveiled its “4 Small Changes” campaign which received unanimous support from all health agencies/service groups present at Health Access Day 2010. The 4 Small Changes strategy was created to advocate for individual behaviour change through the development, implementation, and monitoring of policies related to the four priority areas that support and promote healthy living. To visit the 4 Small Changes section of this website click here!

Smoking Cessation

The Health Sector supported and continues to support the implementation of a best practice hospital based smoking cessation model across all Windsor-Essex hospitals. This model was successfully implemented in Windsor Regional Hospital and is expected to be implemented in other Windsor-Essex County hospitals.