Thanks for the opportunity.
There are some common risk factors that apply to a full range of chronic diseases, most of which have been mentioned here. They relate to physical activity, healthy eating, and smoking cessation, and of course healthy weight, which is related very often to physical activity and healthy eating.
Those are huge issues, and we certainly work very hard on those issues generally, as well as having a lens specifically in terms of the senior population. We do have a physical activity guide for older adults. In fact, we have four guides--for children, adolescents, adults, and older adults. There is very useful evidence-based information in those guides to help people make decisions about becoming physically active.
With regard to healthy eating, of course there's Canada's Food Guide, which has just been released in revised form. I think it was last year. Again, there is some specific information there for seniors, including advice in terms of taking vitamin D, which is very important to the senior population. There is also an aboriginal food guide that has been developed for aboriginal people. Of course, in terms of smoking cessation, there is very robust programming within the health portfolio to give people advice on how to stop smoking.
Those areas in and of themselves can make a huge difference in people's health status. We do work quite diligently in the area of health promotion to try to get those messages across and to work on the environmental factors that will make it easier for people to make the healthier choices as they relate to their own health.