Yukon Healthy Living Study
The Yukon Healthy Living Study (YHLS) broadens our understanding of the ways people across the Yukon engage in recreation. Physical activity and recreation provide valuable social, mental, and physical wellness benefits. Since 2009, the YHLS has guided programs, such as Winter Active for Life, that foster these benefits.
Monitoring physical activity provides important information to community partners on active living patterns and informs recreation and health promotion initiatives. Understanding healthy living from a cultural and rural perspective provides opportunities for programs and services to support community priorities and preferences in meaningful, relevant ways.
The 2025 Yukon Heathy Living Study built on previous versions (2009, 2016, 2021) to gain deeper insight into active living patterns post-pandemic with a focus on outdoor, unstructured recreational activities.
The 2025 Study was conducted through a collaborative partnership between the Yukon Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (at the Yukon Research Centre) and the Recreation and Parks Association of the Yukon.
