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Health Promotion & Disease Risk Factors

• Age
• Diet
• Drinking
• Environmental Conditions
• Gender
• Genetics
• Illicit Drug Use
• Obesity
• Physical Activity
• Risky Sexual Behaviour
• Smoking

Age

• A Profile of NWT Seniors
• EpiNorth Article, A Profile of NWT Seniors- Focus on Morbidity, 2003 Volume 15, Issue 1
• EpiNorth Article, NWT Seniors- Articles, 2001 Volume 13, Issue 2

Diet

• EpiNorth Article, Nutrition and School Performance, 2003 Volume 15, Issue 2
• EpiNorth Article, Predicting Food Choice Behaviour in a Nunavik Community- Developing A Tool for Public Health, 2003 Volume 15, Issue 1
• Healthy Foods in Facilities
• NWT Food Guide
• Northwest Territories Traditional Food Fact Sheets Series

Drinking

• EpiNorth Article, Alcohol Related Injury in the NWT, 2005 Volume 17 Issue 2

Environmental Conditions

• Tattooing and Your Health

Illicit Drug Use

• Drug Free Works For Me and it can work for you! Poster

Obesity

• Drop the Pop Booklet: Information, Activities & Challenge Information to Promote Healthy Beverages in the NWT
• EpiNorth Article, Children & Obesity, 2006 Volume 18 Issue 1
• EpiNorth Article, NWT Healthy Living School Survey-Key Findings, 2005 Volume 17 Issue 1
• EpiNorth Article, School Children- Inactive & Overweight- An Alarming Trend, 2002 Volume 14, Issue 4

Physical Activity

• EpiNorth Article, Active Road to Health & Active Living at School, 2002 Volume 14, Issue 2
• EpiNorth Article, NWT Healthy Living School Survey-Key Findings, 2005 Volume 17 Issue 1
• EpiNorth Article, NWT School Active Living Kits- A Summary of Findings from a 2 year pilot, 2006 Volume 18 Issue 1
• EpiNorth Article, School Children- Inactive & Overweight- An Alarming Trend, 2002 Volume 14, Issue 4
• EpiNorth Article, Walking Prescriptions-Finding from a Pilot Project, 2006 Volume 18 Issue 1
• Get Active NWT

Smoking

• A Territorial Law to Control Tobacco Use – What Do You Think
• EpiNorth Article, Don’t Be A Butthead-Be Smoke Free-Evaluation, 2006 Volume 18 Issue 1
• EpiNorth Article, Don’t be a Butthead campaign proves popular, 2005 Volume 17 Issue 1
• EpiNorth Article, Smoking in the NWT: Focus on Youth & Smoking from a Health Promotion Perspective, 2001 Volume 13, Issue 1 
• EpiNorth Article, Action on Tobacco- The Territorial Strategy for Tobacco Control, 2002 Volume 14, Issue 3
• Helping Smokers Quit - A Health Professional's Guide
• Mass Media Tobacco Strategy Evaluation
• Northern Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey
• Quitting Smoking? Products and Benefit Programs that can help
• Smoke Alarm
• Summary Report- 2002 NWT School Tobacco Survey
• The Facts About Smoking in the Northwest Territories
• NWT Tobacco Fact Sheets