Government of Yukon

Government Services

Illness

Advance Directives
In Yukon, you can appoint someone you trust to make health care and personal care decisions for you through an Advance Directive.

Alcohol and Drug Services
Prevention, detoxification, outpatient counselling, inpatient services, youth services and outreach.

Care consent
The Care Consent Act deals with consent and substitute consent to health care, admission to care facilities and personal assistance services.

Chronic Disease Program
Provides benefits for Yukon residents who have a chronic disease or a serious functional disability.

Communicable Disease Control
Monitors and controls all infectious diseases. Confidential testing for all sexually transmitted diseases. STD testing and treatment, emergency and non-emergency birth control, needle stick injuries, food poisoning, and more...

Community Health Centres
Listings and phone numbers for Community Health Centres in Yukon.

Detoxification services
Safe withdrawal from alcohol and other drugs.

Disabilities
Listing of links related to disabilities and disability services.

Doctorless Patient Online Registry
Yukon residents eligible for Insured Health Benefits and currently without a family doctor are asked to register with the Department of Health and Social Services to help us determine the actual number of residents without doctors and how many doctors we need to serve our residents.

Finding a doctor
A list of all licenced physicians in Yukon. Contact the Yukon Medical Council for the most up to date information.

Flu
Information on seasonal and pandemic flu.

HealthLine – 811
Call 811 for free, confidential 24-hour service available to anyone in Yukon.

Home care
Health-related services for people who have difficulty accessing services due to mobility or health restraints.

Insured Health Benefits
Find out what is considered an insured service and what is not.

Medical Travel
Helps eligible people with the cost of medically necessary transportation.

Mental Health
A community mental health clinic offers assessment, individual and group therapy, supportive counselling and referral services for a wide range of emotional and behavioural problems and mental illnesses.

Palliative care
Care that is offered to a person who is dying.

Residential care programs
There are three continuing care facilities in Yukon

Respite care services
Provides short-term relief to caregivers looking after a relative or friend at home.