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BC HealthGuide OnLine has new interactive health tools to help you measure, manage and improve your health. These health tools are available 24/7 along with health information on various conditions and symptoms, medical tests, procedures and other resources.

• Activity Calorie Calculator - Count your activities and calories to better health
• Are you at Risk for a Stroke? - This interactive tool measures the chance of having a stroke in the next 5 years for people with atrial fibrillation.
• Cost of Smoking - Calculate the cost of smoking over a lifetime, and compare with investing this money in you and your health.
• Risk of Depression - Calculate the risk of depression among youth and adults.
• Fertility Calculator - Estimate the best day when you may be fertile to become pregnant.
• Heart Disease Risk Calculator - Explore factors that may make you more, or less, at risk of heart disease.
• Life Change Stress Test - Find out how life's changes play a role in your stress levels.
• Should you Consider Surgery for your Low Back? - Find out whether surgery may help decrease the symptoms of a back problem.
• Smoking and Risk of Heart Attack - Explore the connections and risk between smoking and heart attacks.
• Weight and Health Risks - Find out how weight plays a role in health risks.
• Pregnancy Due Date Calculator - Estimate when your baby may be born.
• Readiness to Change - Are you ready for the change you're thinking of making? Take this quiz to find out.
• Resiliency Quiz - Can you handle things well? Are you resilient? Take this quiz to find out.
• Smoking's Impact on Life Span - Use this calculator to see how smoking can impact your life span.
• Target Heart Rate - Find out your ideal resting heart rate with this calculator.

You can also find special health tools called Action Sets and Decision Points in BC HealthGuide OnLine. Action Sets help you learn and practice better ways to manage your and your family's health. Decision Points help you make informed decisions when you are facing an important medical decision or other choice that affects your health.

• Action Sets - These tools include helpful health information, quizzes and plans to help you learn new activities to promote health and prevent illness. Promoting Children's Self-esteem, Asthma Action Plans, and Office Ergonomics are just a few.
• Decision Points - These helpful guides help you understand your health condition and "try on a decision" to explore its possible impacts before making the actual choice with your health provider. Find Decision Points about medical tests and treatment options that explain what you need to know, while helping you decide what is most important to you.

You and your family can get 24-hour health information and advice in four easy formats with the BC HealthGuide Program:

• BC HealthGuide OnLine at www.bchealthguide.org
• BC HealthFiles on-line at www.bchealthguide.org/healthfiles/
• BC HealthGuide Handbook, available free at your local pharmacy or Government Agent's Office
• BC NurseLine at 1-866-215-4700 to speak to a nurse 24-hours and a pharmacist from 5 p.m. to 9 a.m. every day.

The BC HealthGuide Program is endorsed by the British Columbia Medical Association, College of Family Physicians, College of Pharmacists of BC, and the College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia.