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Centres of Excellence for Women's Health
Program (CEWHP) Update Fall 1999
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BC Centre of Excellence
for Women's Health
Executive Director:
Lorraine Greaves, Ph.D.
Research Associates: Ann Pederson, M.Sc., Olena Hankivsky,
Ph.D., Marina Morrow, Ph.D.
Communications Coordinator: Celeste Wincapaw, MA
Northern Secretariat Office Coordinator: Theresa Healy,
Ph.D.
Main Office
BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre
E311 - 4500 Oak Street
Vancouver BC V6H 3N1
Web site: www.bccewh.bc.ca
The BC Centre of Excellence for
Women's Health (BCCEWH) is a research and policy centre created
by women's health researchers, health care providers, community
groups, and policy makers dedicated to improving women's health.
We improve the health of women by fostering innovative, multi-disciplinary
action- research on health policy, women's health initiatives,
and women-centred programs. The Centre facilitates research on
the social determinants of health, especially for marginalized
women. Therefore, projects which will improve the health of women
who face disadvantages due to socio-economic status, race, culture,
age, sexual orientation, geography, disability, and/or addiction
are particularly encouraged.
Ongoing Research and Projects
The BCCEWH has funded
more than fifty seed grants in three main themes, coordinated
by working groups. Research teams are usually community/academic
partnerships doing action-research to improve women's health
and change health policy. A comprehensive list of projects is
available at our web site. The Centre also does grant-supported
research. Currently we are doing projects in women's mental health,
economic costing of women's health issues, gender in women's
health research, and gender and tobacco policy, among others.
All of our work falls under three main themes:
Theme 1: Healthy Women in Healthy Communities
How is health linked to the context of women's roles as wives,
partners, mothers, daughters, caregivers, volunteers, workers
and members of the community?
Theme 2: Health Status and Health Determinants
How do social, economic, cultural, and political factors affect
women's health status and use of the health care system?
Theme 3: Women-Centred Care
How can health care systems and other services for women be made
more inclusive, responsive, and appropriate for a diversity of
women?
Conferences
Building Bridges:
Creating an Integrated Approach to Women's Health
The BCCEWH is proud to be involved in the Building Bridges conference,
which will focus on the integration of biomedical and social
determinants perspectives on women's health. The conference takes
place April 29-May 1, 2000 at the Victoria Conference Centre
in Victoria, British Columbia. Contact us for more information.
Turning Research into Policy for Women's Health
The BCCEWH is sponsoring this strategic conference on research
uptake and policy change in women's health. It will take place
in Vancouver on April 28, 2000. Watch our web site for details.
CIHR Involvement
The Executive Director
of the BCCEWH, Lorraine Greaves, Ph.D., is a member of the Interim
Governing Council (IGC) of the Canadian Institutes of Health
Research (CIHR), announced in February 1999. It will organize
and transform health research in Canada. The IGC is focused on
the implementation of changes in the way that research is carried
out and how institutes should be developed to ensure that research
can be interdisciplinary, cross-cutting and transformative. For
more information, see the CIHR web site: www.cihr.org.
Publications
A number of research
publications are in the works, with an estimated 10-15 reports
due out by the summer of 2000. Our current and upcoming publications
include:
Hearing Voices: Mental Health Care for Women by Marina
Morrow with Monika Chappell
Women with Disabilities: We Know What We Need to be Healthy
by Shirley Masuda
Observations of the Home Birth Demonstration Project Tour
by Jeanne Lyons and Elaine Carty
What Makes Women Healthy : A Contemporary Analysis by
Colleen Reid
The Information Gap The Impact of Health Care Reform on British
Columbia Women by Colleen Fuller
First Nations' Women's Encounters with Mainstream Health Care
Services and Systems by Annette Browne
Challenges to Integration: Inter-Professional Relationships
and the Experience of the Regulation of Midwifery in British
Columbia by Jude Kornelsen
Nurses' Perceptions of Midwifery in British Columbia by
Elaine Carty, Jude Kornelsen and V. Susan Dahinten
For further information,
please contact:
BCCEWH
Main Office:
Telephone: (604) 875.2633
Fax: (604) 875.3716
E-mail: bccewh@bccewh.bc.ca
Northern Secretariat Office:
Telephone: (250) 960-5602
Fax: (250) 960-5644
E-mail: healy@unbc.ca
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