Cancer Patient Navigators are oncology nurses who work with you, your family, and your cancer team throughout your treatment and follow up journey. Being diagnosed with cancer affects you physically and emotionally. A Cancer Patient Navigator can support you through all of this. Contact our local Cancer Patient Navigator, Dianna Hutt at 1-902-690-3700 or Dianna.hutt@nshealth.ca
A resource for anyone who has recently been diagnosed with diabetes, pre-diabetes, or needs more help to build self-management skills.
Helping you and your family doctor make informed choices. View wait times for health care services. Find the shortest wait times. Identify potential options for reducing your wait time.
This website provides evidenced-based resources and a goal-setting platform that can help you zone in on five, evidence-based actions you can take to maximize your health and happiness no matter what age you are.
A website to help people with insomnia get their sleep back without medications; and to help people stop taking sleeping pills safely and effectively.
A BC resource which gives an overview of depression, explains how it can be effectively managed according to the best available research, and gives a step-by-step guide to changing patterns that trigger depression.
A website dedicated at promoting awareness of anxiety disorders and increasing access to proven resources
Are you getting enough Calcium? Check out this resource from osteoporosis.ca to see if you're meeting your targets.
Supporting youth around issues of sexual orientation and gender identity since 1993.
SexandU.ca takes a real-life approach to the questions and issues around sex and sexuality that matter most to Canadians.
Provides confidential sexual health services, health education, and health promotion to youth 13-30 years of age.
Eating Disorders Nova Scotia (EDNS) is a community based organization that offers peer support for individuals with eating disorders, and for their families, friends and partners.
Learn about recommended vaccines and when you or your family should get them.
Information about prevention and control of lyme disease in Nova Scotia.
Call 8-1-1 to talk to a registered nurse around the clock, seven days a week.
Nova Scotia Health Authority provides health services to Nova Scotians and some specialized services to Maritimers and Atlantic Canadians. We operate hospitals, health centres and community-based programs across the province.
A provincial list for people without a family doctor or nurse practitioner.