To support the empowerment of individuals and communities to take responsibility for and active control of their own health and health care. There are more daily smokers. Following the 1994 tax cut on tobacco, smoking increased. There are more binge drinkers. There are more overweight people.
Fat consumption is higher.
Fewer women are screened for cervical cancer than their provincial counterparts. More Renfrew County women are hospitalized for respiratory disease than Ontario women in general. The proportion of births to teenagers in Renfrew County is increasing . More children in Renfrew County are being born to single women. More people rate their health as poor.