Promoting Ontario Heart Health through Community Partnerships

The ministry supports 36 Ontario Heart Health community partnerships that run comprehensive programs to prevent chronic diseases such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke and some forms of cancers.

Together they implement programs at the community level that target three major risk factors for heart disease and other chronic conditions:

1.  tobacco use;
2.  unhealthy eating; and
3. physical inactivity.

In 2007, the ministry’s involvement in the Ontario Heart Health Program has helped mobilize more than 2,500 community partners across the province to generate more than $19 million of local, in-kind support – which helps create a healthy Ontario through awareness, education, environmental support and policy development in communities, schools and workplaces.