Windsor Essex County Health Unit

A Community Affair, Practice Sun Safety Everywhere

The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit has kicked off its latest sun safety initiative. To celebrate this initiative, the Health Unit co-hosted a skin care and make-up demonstration with the theme ‘You Don’t Have to be Tanned to Have a Healthy Glow’ on May 12th, 2006 at Shoppers Drug Mart in Devonshire Mall, Windsor, ON.

It is time to get serious about skin cancer – Skin cancer is preventable.

The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit, Chatham-Kent Health Unit, County of Lambton Community Health Services Department, and several community partners have developed a skin cancer awareness magazine entitled “Over Exposed”.  The magazine provides teens and young adults with information and strategies to make healthy lifestyle choices that can reduce the risk for skin cancer.  This publication uses a contempory approach to providing important skin health information.

The Over Exposed magazine will answer questions like, Do Self-Tanners Really Work? Should I Get Vitamin D From my Favourite Tanning Salon?  Are All Sunglasses the Same When it Comes to Protecting my Eyes From the Sun?  Is Everyone Doomed to Get Skin Cancer? And more…

To support this sun safety strategy, the health unit continues to offer the program ‘A Community Affair, Practice Sun Safety Everywhere’.  This community wide initiative includes schools, students, parents, workplaces, vacationers, pool users, parks and recreation lifeguards, and others.  This program reinforces the idea that everyone can protect his or her skin while still having fun outdoors.

Click on ‘A Community Affair, Practice Sun Safety Everywhere’ related articles and resources for more information.

Resources:

• Over Exposed, Skin Cancer Awareness Magazine
• 2006 Media Resource Package 
• It’s your health – Tanning Lamps, Health Canada
• Artificial Tanning Beds, Risks and Guidance, World Health Organization
• A Community Affair, Practice Sun Safety Everywhere Poster - English
• A Community Affair, Practice Sun Safety Everywhere Poster - French
• A Community Affair, Practice Sun Safety Everywhere Postcard - English
• A Community Affair, Practice Sun Safety Everywhere Postcard - French
• Sun Safety Guidelines for Workplaces 
• Educator Flyer - English PDF
• Educator Flyer - French PDF
• School sun safety resource information PDF

2006 Over Exposed Community Partners:

• Windsor-Essex County Health Unit
• Chatham-Kent Public Health Unit
• County of Lambton Community Health Services Department
• Canadian Dermatology Association
• Canadian Cancer Society
• Windsor Essex Catholic District School Board
• Greater Essex County District School Board
• Riverside Optimist Club
• Essex County Pharmacy Association
• Ontario Trillium Foundation
• Health Action Windsor-Essex
• La Roche Posey Pharmaceutical Limited
• Cancer Prevention Network Erie-St Clair
• Healthy Living Chatham-Kent
• May Court – Chatham