HSS Professionals

NWT Chronic Disease Prevention and Management Framework

• FAQs
• Framework 

Resources for Chronic Disease Screening

Assessment

• NWT Family History Risk Assessment Tool
• New Health Canada Guidelines on BMI

Cancer

• Breast Cancer
  • NWT Breast Cancer Screening Clinical Practice Guidelines 2024
• Cervical Cancer
  • NWT Cervical Cancer Screening Clinical Practice Guidelines 2010
• Colorectal Cancer

  • NWT Colorectal Cancer Screening Clinical Practice Guidelines 2024

​Diabetes

• NWT Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Screening and Diagnosis Clinical Practice Guidelines and NWT version CANRISK

Heart Disease

• Cardiovascular Risk Assessment Tool 2017
• CHEP Hypertension Guidelines 2018

Kidney Disease

• NWT Chronic Kidney Disease Clinical Practice Guidelines 2017

Mental Health

• Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) and Instruction Manual
• Patient Health Questionnaire PHQ-9 for Depression
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder GAD-7

Resources for Chronic Disease Risk Factor Prevention

• Facilitator Guide for Healthy Living
• Participant Guide for Healthy Living Reflection

Alcohol

• NWT: Alcohol Management

Heart Disease

• Blood Pressure Facts (English | French)

Nutrition

• Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide – First Nations, Inuit and Métis (English | French)
• Healthy Eating Assessment (English | French)
• Healthy Eating and Weight Management Guide (English | French)
• Nutritional Fact Sheet Series (FAQs)
• NWT: Healthy Eating and Weight Management
• Nutritional Food Fact Sheets

Physical Activity

• Canadian Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines Handbook (English | French)
• Exercise Prescription and Referral Tool

  • Guide for Prescribing Exercise

  • Exercise Prescription and Referral Tool

• NWT Physical Activity Toolkit  (English | French)
  1. Taking the first step: deciding to be physically active (English | French)
  2. Making a physical activity plan (English | French)
  3. Setting goals for physical activity (English | French)
  4. What stops you from being physically active? (English | French)
  5. Benefits of physical activity (English | French)
  6. Physical activity and your blood pressure (English | French)
  7. High blood pressure: how to stay safe when active (English | French)
  8. Physical activity and type 2 diabetes (English | French)
  9. Diabetes: how to stay safe when active (English | French)
  10. Healthy weight and physical activity (English | French)
• NWT: Physical Activity Assessment (English | French)

Tobacco

• NWT: Tobacco Cessation
• My Tobacco Quit Plan (English | French)
• 60 Seconds to Save a life – A Health Professional’s Guide
• Information on NWT Health Coverage of Tobacco Quit Aids (English | French)