Populations | Public Health eLearning
Public Health Dietitians are experts in nutrition and public health. We work with various stakeholders and sectors within and external to Alberta Health Service (AHS) to support healthy food environments. We also provide public health nutrition expertise and help translate nutrition knowledge to others to promote the nutritional health of all Albertans.
Public Health Dietitians work with many sectors, communities, groups, and health professionals to support healthy eating in different settings. Examples include schools, early learning and childcare centres, communities, and public spaces. We engage with partners to understand their needs and how we can most effectively support them.
We work with others to:
Learn more: The Role of the Registered Dietitian in Population & Public Health
If you have questions or feedback, email us at publichealth.nutrition@ahs.ca
Preconception, Pregnancy, and Lactation | Growth Monitoring: Birth to 19 Years | Infants & Young Children | Children & Youth | Adults & Seniors | Household Food Insecurity | Indigenous Peoples | Newcomers to Canada
These are life stages when individuals and families look for nutrition information and conversations with care providers. You can use this comprehensive set of resources to support your clients with evidence-based nutrition information
Preconception
Pregnancy & Lactation
You can use this comprehensive review of evidence to help you create effective strategies to support the knowledge, skills, and capacity of parents of children aged 0-6 years to improve their eating behaviours.
Nutrition Guidelines
Evidence Review: Children Birth to 6 Years
This comprehensive review of evidence can help you develop strategies to effectively engage parents and families to influence nutritional behaviours of their children aged 6-18 years.
Evidence Review: Children and Youth
You can use this comprehensive review of evidence to inform school meal and snack programs based on their impact on household food insecurity, learning, and health outcomes.
Evidence Review: School Meal and Snack Programs
The effects of various population level interventions that aim to reduce nutrition-related chronic disease are included in this comprehensive review. It uses current evidence to answer the following questions:
Evidence Review: Nutrition-related chronic disease prevention interventions
Household food insecurity – the inadequate or insecure access to food due to financial constraints – is a serious public health issue. You can use the resources to guide understanding of the issue in Canadian health and social context, inform program and policy development, and address myths and misconceptions of the experience of household food insecurity and effective actions to address it.
You can use this evidence and knowledge summary to inform various engagement activities that may be useful for health professionals when engaging with Indigenous peoples, communities, and stakeholders for ways to support the health priorities of Indigenous peoples, including health priorities that are nutrition related.
These nutrition modules were designed for AHS health professionals working in public health settings. Module content is aligned with provincial Nutrition Guidelines for Healthy Infants and Young Children.
