Public Health In Canada

Public health agency of Canada is a local agency located on 130 Colonnade Road Ottawa, Ontario. It has several accessible branches around Canada and they have done a great success dealing with severe diseases. Their mission and aim are to advertise, treat and protect the health of Canadians, and their role is to keep a healthier community in a healthy universe. The role of the agency is to prevent numerous diseases such as chronic, infectious diseases. They anticipate for public health emergencies, for instance, apply Canada's health program through international development and research. The agency provides so many services such as dealing with the infectious and chronic disease, travel health, food safety, immunization & vaccines and many …show more content…
The agency's task is to keep an eye on the active TB and track it through a "national surveillance system". “The Agency uses TB surveillance data and reports to monitor progress towards achieving Canada’s goal of preventing and controlling the transmission of TB, as outlined in Tuberculosis Prevention and Control in Canada - A Federal Framework for Action” (Public health of agency, 2012). Health agencies use (CTBRS) to track TB disease. The health portfolio cooperates to address TB with other federal sectors and agencies, however, is it officially reportable in all over the nation. Moreover, the Canadian government reported cases in 1924 and the first official report was in 1937 (Public health of agency, 2012). TB could be respiratory or non-respiratory, respiratory includes pulmonary TB, and TB of the pleura and the non-respiratory includes the bones and joints, central nervous system, and the lymph nodes and many others. Tuberculosis has some environmental factors that influence the progression of the disease. Some of these factors include poor life style or smoking excessively. (Tuberculosis Prevention and Control in Canada,