Product Development Process | 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:
If you have questions or feedback, email us at publichealth.nutrition@ahs.ca
We use a process called the Product Development Process to address nutrition related issues and promote healthy eating behaviours. This 9-step tool, developed by our team, integrates commercial product development principles with health promotion theories and practice. Evidence, collaboration, and consultation are core components which inform the PDP steps.
Preconception, Pregnancy, and Lactation | Infants & Young Children | Children & Youth | Adults & Seniors | Indigenous Peoples | Food Insecurity | Newcomers to Canada
You can use this comprehensive review of evidence to help develop effective strategies to communicate nutrition information to women and families during pregnancy.
Evidence Review: Maternal Health
Prenatal Nutrition Tool
The Prenatal Nutrition Tool can be used to help prepare you for working with pregnant clients. It can help to focus the conversations on nutrition topics that influence parental and infant health outcomes. It includes 2 parts:
A questionnaire that covers 4 topics:
A conversation guide, to assist you when talking with your client about the nutrition topics for pregnancy.
Pictorial Resources
A series of pictorial-based nutrition handouts that you can use with pregnant clients who may have low English literacy. Look for these handouts under Pregnancy and Breastfeeding on the Nutrition Education page.
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
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.
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.
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.