The Northwestern Health Unit in Pickle Lake, and many other Ontario, Canada areas serves to improve the quality and length of life in their communities, and services and programs offered include environmental health, family services, health promotion and protection, and more. The Northwestern Health Unit offers emergency response, food safety, health hazard investigations, infection and rabies control, sewage inspection, safe water and west nile virus services for environmental health programs. Family services include audiology, child and dental health, pre-school speech and language, infant hearing and reproductive health. They promote chronic disease prevention, nutrition, active living, skin cancer and injury prevention, injury and substance abuse prevention, workplace wellness for health promotion. The Northwestern Health Unit also offers needle exchange programs, early detection of cancer, control of infectious diseases, sexual health as well as sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis and vaccines.