OCTOBER 2004 ISSUE OF WELLSPRING FROM THE ALBERTA CENTRE FOR ACTIVE LIVING

1. What's in this issue?

2. New format for WellSpring

3. News from the Alberta Centre for Active Living

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1. WHAT'S IN THIS ISSUE?
"The Canadian Health Measures Survey," by Dr. Mark Tremblay (Senior
Scientific Advisor on Health Measurement, Statistics Canada).

This article focuses on the upcoming Canadian Health Measures Survey. Dr.
Tremblay and his team hope to obtain direct physical measurements from a
representative sample of 6,000 to 8,000 Canadians. These data will be used
to plan health care and prevention services to meet Canadians' needs.

Dr. John Spence (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Physical Education and
Recreation, University of Alberta) outlines how this survey will affect
health practitioners.

To access this issue, visit
www.centre4activeliving.ca/Publications/WellSpring/index.html.

If you would like to reprint WellSpring in your newsletter or post it on
your web site, please contact Kathy Garnsworthy at
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2. NEW FORMAT FOR WELLSPRING

You will notice that we now have a new format for WellSpring, our newsletter
for health practitioners.

This new WellSpring includes one longer article, allowing a more in-depth
focus on an aspect of physical activity of interest to practitioners.
WellSpring will also be published more often--six times a year instead of
the current three times. Watch for our next issue in December.

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3. NEWS FROM THE ALBERTA CENTRE FOR ACTIVE LIVING

a.  Healthy U @ Work Award
Healthy U @ Work, a highly successful project launched at Alberta Health and
Wellness to help its employees become more physically active and make
healthy eating choices, recently won the Alberta Premier's Award of
Excellence (Bronze).  The Alberta Centre for Active Living is proud to have
been involved in developing this project. In addition, Dr. Dru Marshall,
chair of the centre's Executive Management Group, was part of the team
evaluating the project.

b. Workplace Article Published
Dr. Ron Plotnikoff (the centre's Senior Research Associate) and colleagues
recently published an article on workplace physical activity, "Development
of an Ecological Assessment Tool for a Workplace Physical Activity Program
Standard,"  in the Health Promotion Practice journal (2004 Vol., No. 1).

c. Canadian Health Network
The following message is from the Canadian Health Network (an associated
project of the Alberta Centre for Active Living:

Are you aware of any upcoming active living or health promotion related
events in Northern/remote/rural settings (e.g., Yukon, NWT, Nunavut)? Or
could you share your contacts or existing network from any of those regions?
We are looking for ways to learn about the needs/interests for active living
information in that region and to find existing resources/organizations to
share with other Canadians on CHN. If you know of any upcoming events,
please contact [log in to unmask]

Access the Canadian Health Network at www.canadian-health-network.ca (click
on
Topics: Healthy Living/Active Living).


d. Healthy Alberta web site
The Alberta Centre for Active Living contributes active living and healthy
eating information to the Government of Alberta Healthy Alberta web site
(www.healthyalberta.com). Fill out the new web site survey (it will pop up
after you click four pages on the site) for a chance to win $1,500 of
groceries!

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