Monthly Public Health Update

March 2020

• Hepatitis C Screening ‘Get Tested’ Campaign: What You Need to Know
• Quit Smoking Workshop Referrals
• Having a Baby at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital?
• Tuberculosis Skin Test & Interferon Gamma Release Assay
  • Consider testing for Latent TB in your office
  • Local Tuberculosis Statistics, 2019
  • Did you know…? 
  • Guidance on Testing and Results Interpretation
• Update: Rifampin Shortage

February 2020

• With Rising Syphilis Rates, Enhance Prevention
• The Region’s Opioid Crisis
• Herpes Zoster Immunization is Making a Difference
• Less risky cannabis edibles use
• Smoking Cessation
• nCoV Resources for Health Care Professionals

January 2020

• Reminder about the administration of the influenza vaccine
• No increase in syphillis incidence locally
• Immunization record review for elementary students
• Update on local influenza activity
• Using Oseltamivir during influenza outbreaks in institutions
• Elgin post partum mood group starts up January 16
• Public Health Ontario 2018 vaccine safety report
• Discontinuing rabies immunoglobulin-sparing protocol
• Antibiotic awareness: shorter is smarter

November 2019

• Radon Action Month
• Food Programs and Services Guide
• Supporting People Who Use Drugs - The Impact of Stigma
• Instructions Not Included - reaching out to new families

October 2019

• Secondary School Student Immunization Review
• Youth-Oriented Sexual Health Materials
• Smokers’ Helpline Phone Service Transferred to Telehealth Ontario
• Health Canada Warning: Vaping Products
• Rifampin 150 mg and 300 mg Shortage Over
• Flu Season

September 2019

• Changes to Mandatory Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Report Requirements
• Education Events
• Infant Feeding in Oxford County
• Smoking Cessation

August 2019

• Preventing Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) Lapses Checklists for your Office

• Changes to Mandatory Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Reporting Requirements to SWPH

• New Resource: Free and Low-Cost Activities for Older Adults

• Update on Rifampin Drug Shortage in Ontario

• Rabies Vaccine and Immunoglobulin Shortage

• Protecting Your Patient from HIV Transmission - OntarioPrEP.ca

• Updated Resources on Measles Management Information from Public Health Ontario

• Breastfeeding in Oxford

July 2019

• Gentian Violet May Increase Cancer Risk

• 2019 Food Programs and Services Guide for Elgin County Now Available; Oxford in the Fall
• Important Information for your Patients on Renal Dialysis
• Education Opportunity – Antimicrobial Stewardship in Primary Care Continuing Education Program
• Handle Antibiotics with Care

May 2019

• Lab confirmed measles exposures in Ontario
• Share with your parents - the 24-hour Movement Guidelines for Early Years (0-4 years)
• Vaccine pain reduction

March 2019

• HPV4 Vaccine No Longer Available
• Infants less than 12 Months Do Not Need Measles VaccineZostavax Shortage - Prioritize Patients in their 70th Year
  • For Latent TB Treatment - 4 Months of Rifampin as good as 9 of Isoniazid
  • For World TB Day, Facts about TB Reporting, Testing and Treatment
  • For You and Your Staff - Learn more about IPAC in Clinical Office Practice
  • Proposed Changes to ODSP Definition of Disability

February 2019

• SWPH Forms Now Available for your EMR
• Canada has a new Food Guide!
• Training Opportunities
• Health Canada Alert regarding products sold at A1 Herbal Ayurvedic Clinic Ltd.

January 2019

• Public Health no longer weigh infants without cause
• Ophthalmia Neonatorum - New Opt-Out Options
• Post Exposure Immunoglobulin dosing for Measles for increased
• Erythromycin Ointment Shortage

November 2018

• Substance Misuse Workshop
• CBR Workshop for Post Partum
• McMaster Optimal Aging Portal
• Influenza Vaccine - Pregnancy
• Pertussis Vaccination in Pregnancy
• Winter Respiratory Virus Testing
• Quick Takes: A podcast by physicians, for physicians
• Limited Supply of High Dose Trivalent Vaccine - St.Thomas Site

October 2018

• Substance Misuse Workshop
• Listeria Infections Alert
• High Dose Trivalent Inactivated Vaccine

September 2018

• TB Skin Testing - Testing Update & Reporting
• 2018-19 Universal Influenza Immunization Program (UIIP)
• Vaccine Ordering & Distribution
• Cyclosporiasis
• Latent TB Infection (LTBI)

July 2018

• Pediatric Patients - Fruits & Veggies
• Nutrition Healthy Eating Information & Advice
• Save the Date! (Substance Series) 

June 2018

• Diseases of Public Health Significance (formerly Ontario Reportable Diseases List)
• NutriSTEP Screening Identified Nutritional Risk in Children
• Dermatology Topics for Primary Care Rounds

May 2018

• Meet our new Health Unit: Southwestern Public Health
• Rectal and pharyngeal NAAT swabs
• Discuss Sun Safety with your Patient
• TB Skin Testing

April 2018 #2

• Return Unused Influenza Vaccine
• Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) 101 in Community Health Settings
• Primary Care Rounds (December Slides re: Insomnia)

April 2018 #1

• Plan Ahead, Order Vaccine
• Changes to immunization Exemption Process
• Healthy Growth Initiative - Sign Up
• Infection Prevention and Control 101 - Save the Date

March 2018

• Optimizing Preconception Health in Your Practice
• Food Programs and Services Guide

February 2018

• Pertussis - Return to day care/school/work
• Low Risk Cannabis Guidelines

January 2018

• Nasopharyngeal Swab - Pertussis
• Ordering Vaccines for Students
• Influenza Activity Summary
• Influenza Vaccination