Promo-santé 

This prevention centre covers the Regional County Municipality of Antoine-Labelle with a population of some 35,000 people. This centre is aimed at three specific types of clients:

1. Primary and secondary school students of the Pierre Nepveu school board and students from the Centre collégial de Mont-Laurier.
2. People aged 18 years and over with a view to improving their cardiovascular health, and those presenting cardiovascular disease risk factors (primary prevention).
3. Individuals already suffering from cardiovascular disease (secondary prevention).

There are approximately 600 hospitalizations for cardiovascular disease in this region each year.

This prevention centre aimed to touch the lives of some 1,000 primary and secondary students in 2004, and some 4,500 in 2006.

Therefore, this centre's goal is to improve the cardiovascular health of those living in a fairly remote area who do not have access to any such service. Moreover, the originality of the centre is to develop preventive activities for the outdoors (forest and mountains).

This project is supported by physicians in the region, local elected officials and local business people. Those in charge of the project have officially asked the MHI's ÉPIC Centre to sponsor the project from both a medical and scientific standpoint and to ensure that the physicians and other professionals (kinesiologists, respiratory therapists, nurses, etc.) involved receive the proper training.