Public Health
The Public Health Unit provides public health nursing programs and services, which promote and preserve health, prevent and reduce the incidence of communicable diseases, illness, disability and death across all age groups.
This unit offers a variety of programs:
- Communicable Disease: adult immunizations, communicable disease follow-up and monitoring, tuberculosis (TB), travel health clinics, sexually transmitted infections and community outreach activities.
- Maternal/Child: pre-natal and post-natal classes, home visiting of families with new babies, breastfeeding support and well child clinics which include growth and development assessments and immunizations.
- School Health: hearing and vision screening, speech assessment, immunizations, health information resources, and health education classes.
The Public Health program is used as a teaching facility for the Aurora College Nursing Program and for nurses who are completing post-RN programs.
The Yellowknife Health and Social Services Public Health Unit is open from Monday to Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. It is closed from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Call (867) 920-6570 or fax (867) 873-0158 for more information.
