List the elements of primary health care to the Canadian Context. Give a current Canadian community ...

-   Health education and disease prevention: prenatal education has been shown to improve birth outcomes
-   Promotion of food supply and proper nutrition: school nurses working to demonstrate healthy eating using the food guide
-   Adequate supply of safe water and sanitation: Nurses working with the government to upgrade Canada’s water treatment plants and sanitation systems
-   Maternal child health including family planning: Public Health Nurses who engage in home visiting to promote the health postpartum mothers and newborns after birth
-   Immunization against major infectious diseases: Immunization campaigns in school-aged children
-   Prevention and control of locally endemic diseases: nurses who deliver influenza immunizations
-   Appropriate treatment of common diseases and injuries using the PHC principle of appropriate technology: Education campaigns about when it is appropriate to use the emergency departments at hospitals
-   Provision of essential drugs: Community health nurses who participate in direct observed treatment of tuberculosis in outpatient clinics (page 138-139)