As a great way to prevent and manage chronic disease, Health Care Providers provide good advice on physical activity for patients, family and friends. The following resources were designed by Health care providers as a resource to colleagues to assist with providing good physical activity information.

PACE Canada

PACE Canada is a comprehensive guide to counseling for healthy active living designed to assist physicians in effectively increasing their patients’ physical activity levels and improving their eating habits. Research has demonstrated that the PACE intervention is effective in helping patients move towards more healthy active living, and that the program is acceptable to health care providers, office staff and patients. As well, the program does not require staff to have special medical training and can be used effectively by a wide range of primary care providers.
To learn more click here to visit the PACE Canada web site.

Go for Green Prescription

Health Canada, Go for Green and the College of Family Physicians of Canada collaborated on the design and distribution of an exciting tool to assist health care providers to encourage patients to increase physical activity...your "Go for Green" Prescription!
Whether prescribed by a family doctor, other health care provider or a prescription/commitment that individuals make for themselves, the antidote is healthy physical activity, easily found in your local neighborhood.
The Go for Green Prescription Pad was distributed to more than 15,000 family doctors across Canada in the May 2001 issue of the Canadian Family Physician. An adapted version is also available online. Make your commitment to physical activity today!

Go For Green Prescription