Laura Homer

Northwestern Health Unit

The mission of the Northwestern Health Unit is to improve the quality and length of life in our communities - healthy lifestyles, longer lives lived well. The Northwestern Health Unit is located in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. The Northwestern Health Unit has 14 offices, in 13 communities. The communities we service are: Kenora, Machin, Dryden, Ear Falls, Red Lake, Sioux Narrows/Nestor Falls, Rainy River, Emo, Fort Frances, Atikokan, Ignace, Sioux Lookout and Pickle Lake. Public Health delivers its programs and services using a population health approach. This means that programs are targeted to either the public as a whole (e.g., physical activity, dangers of second-hand smoke) or to specific sub-groups of the population such as expectant mothers (prenatal health), high school students (drinking and driving), or women (breast cancer screening).