Given the rise in obesity rates in North America, concerns about obesity-related costs to the
health care system are being stressed in both the popular media and the scientific literature. …

Methods The task force is an independent panel of clinicians and methodologists that
makes recommendations on primary and secondary prevention in primary care (www. …

Background: The purpose of this study was to describe women's smoking experience during
pregnancy and postpartum. Primiparous women recruited during a randomized controlled …

Methods The task force is an independent panel of clinicians and methodologists that
makes recommendations on primary and secondary prevention in primary care (www. …

The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between maternal smoking
status and infant nutrition. Women delivering in 5 hospitals in the Ottawa-Carleton region of …

Background Community Health Nursing is a required course for post-RN students enrolled
in the baccalaureate nursing program at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Students …

This three-group randomized controlled trial assessed the effectiveness of a postpartum
public health nurse telephone visit on infant-care behaviours of primiparous women in Ottawa-…

Pregnancy is a time in women's lives when quitting smoking often takes on new, important
meaning. A pregnant woman's transition from smoker to nonsmoker is not always an easy one…

A significant change in prenatal classes based in Ontario health departments occurred when
the provincial Ministry of Health proposed that one of their objectives should be" To reduce …

Purpose: This review was produced for the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
(CTFPHC) to inform their recommendations on screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB…