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Centres of Excellence for Women's Health
Program (CEWHP) Update Fall 1999
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Prairie Women's Health
Centre of Excellence
Director:
Linda DuBick
Administrative Coordinator: Sharon Jeanson
Manitoba Program Coordinator: Jennifer Howard
Saskatoon Program Coordinator: Kay Willson
Regina Program Coordinator: Josephine Savarese
Administrative Centre
Room 2C11A, University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg MB R3B 2E9
Web site: www.pwhce.ca
The Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence's (PWHCE) mission
is to improve women's health through high quality, action-oriented
research and policy analysis. The Centre supports and fosters
research designed to increase knowledge of the factors that influence
women's health and well-being. Building on its research and analysis,
the Centre develops gender-sensitive policy and program recommendations
that promote women's health.
Ongoing Research and Projects
1997/98 Research Grants
Final reports from the first series of research grant projects
are nearing completion. Summaries developed in consultation with
project teams will be posted on the PWHCE web site as they become
available.
1998/99 Research and Developmental Grants
The PWHCE awarded over $82,000 to six research project teams
in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The teams will examine a variety
of factors affecting the health needs of women, including seniors,
low-income women, family caregivers, home care workers, and victims
of family violence. Each research team is a partnership of university-based
researchers and community representatives. Developmental grants
totalling $10,000 were awarded to five teams of community groups
and researchers to plan and develop sound research proposals.
2000/2001 Research and Developmental Grants
These grant programs are concentrating on research topics in
two theme areas: the impact of selected determinants of health
on women and the impact of health reform on women. A call for
proposals from community/research team partnerships was issued
in June 1999. Grants will be announced in March 2000. Developmental
grants also will be awarded to partnerships of community organizations
and researchers to develop research proposals that will address
the health needs of marginalized groups of women whose needs
are relatively unknown to policy- makers, or who have limited
knowledge, experience or resources to undertake research.
Service Needs of Pregnant Addicted
Women
Following the Supreme
Court decision in the case of Winnipeg Child and Family Services
(Northwest Area) v. G. in September 1997, community service
agencies expressed concerns to the Province of Manitoba with
regard to barriers pregnant women experience in accessing and
completing addictions treatment. The agencies suggested that
it would be useful to conduct a survey of existing referral agencies,
service providers and consumers to determine what services are
currently available to pregnant addicted women, and to determine
the specific needs of this population group, needs that are not
being met within the existing system.
In response to this advice, Manitoba Health has commissioned
the PWHCE to manage a research study to provide information on
the services required by pregnant addicted women in Manitoba.
An analysis of this information and data, and of existing effective
program models and best practices, is being used to formulate
recommendations to improve or develop new programming for pregnant
addicted women based on identified and quantified needs. Caroline
L. Tait, a medical anthropologist from McGill University, is
the project's principal investigator. The project is scheduled
for completion by December 31, 1999.
Publications
The following research
reports are available for $10.00 each (to cover printing and
postage costs) from the PWHCE Administrative Centre in Winnipeg:
L'impact du support social
sur la santé des femmes: une revue littéraire par Chantal Alarie
Women, Gender and Health: A Review of the Recent Literature
by B.L. Janzen
Evaluating Programs for Women: A Gender-Specific Framework
by Joan McLaren
She Stands Alone: A Review of the Recent Literature on Women
and Social Support by Martha L. Weber
New free publication
PWHCE Update Report (May 1999)
New Fall 1999 Publications
Tammy Horne, Wifreda Thurston and Lissa Donner will report
on their evaluation of gender-sensitive health planning by regional
health bodies in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and present exemplary
models and tools for action.
Kay Willson and Jennifer Howard will report on privatization
occurring in the Saskatchewan and Manitoba health systems, with
a particular focus on how it is affecting women.
Joan McLaren will update Evaluating Programs for Women:
A Gender-Specific Framework based on two pilot evaluations
conducted in Saskatchewan and Manitoba to test the framework.
For further information,
please contact:
PWHCE
Winnipeg Site:
Telephone: (204) 786-9048
Fax: (204) 774-4134
E-mail: PWHCE@uwinnipeg.ca
Saskatoon Site:
Telephone: (306) 966-8658
Fax: (306) 966-7920
E-mail: PWHCE@usask.ca
Regina Site:
Telephone: (306) 585-5727
Fax: (306) 585-5825
E-mail: PWHCE@uregina.ca
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