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- Two CWHN webinars in March!
- CWHN Website Survey
- Explaining the Health Gap Experienced by Girls and Women in Canada: A Social Determinants of Health Perspective
- Fifth Annual Human Placenta Workshop
- Call for Papers: Women's Health & Urban Life Special Issue
- Calling Colleagues in Older & Elderly Women’s Health Research
- Call for Abstracts: The Place of Birth - The Canadian Association of Midwives’ 10th Annual Conference
- The Girls Action Foundation presents: The Amplify Toolkit!
- Reality Check: Women in Canada and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action Fifteen Years On
- Dying Too Young: Maternal Mortality
- Vulvagraphics intervention is now on YouTube: New View Campaign
- 3rd Annual Blogging Carnival on Kickaction.ca!
1. Two CWHN webinars in March!
March 18 at 12 p.m. Eastern, Dayna Scott, co-director of National Network on Environments and Women’s Health, will discuss gender and environmental health, with a focus on research on the Aamjiwnnaang First Nation, a community of approximately 1000 Aanishinaabek people living on a reserve in the midst of Canada’s largest petro-chemical complex. March 24 at 12 p.m. Eastern, CWHN and Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Excellence welcome Elaine Enarson, who will present Women, Gender and disaster: What’s the Connection? Enarson is a disaster sociologist and a founding member of Gender and Disaster Network Canada. Please email info@cwhn.ca to register for one or both of these webinars.
2. CWHN Website Survey
We’ve moved! Tell us what you think. Canadian Women’s Health Network has just completed its move to a new website. To help us provide you with the women’s health information and news you want, please let us know your thoughts on the new site with a short survey. Click here to fill out the survey.
3. Explaining the Health Gap Experienced by Girls and Women in Canada: A Social Determinants of Health Perspective
In this article published in Sociological Research Online, Volume 14, Issue 5, the authors examine the health gap experienced by girls and women in Canada. They argue that a comprehensive picture of health inequities must include not only a sex- and gender-based analysis but also a context sensitive analysis of all the major dimensions of social stratification. Read the article here.
4. Fifth Annual Human Placenta Workshop
This intensive, hands-on workshop to be held on July 11 - 17, 2010 at Queen's University is aimed towards graduate students, post-docs, medical students, nurses, doctors and researchers who wish to gain both practical and theoretical knowledge of human placentology. This program also seeks to create new scientific networks while promoting young investigators and women's health during pregnancy. Feedback from the inaugural placenta workshop has been overwhelmingly positive, and participants were astounded how much they learn in such a short time. Apply and join us in beautiful Kingston, Ontario! For more information, visit our website.
5. Call for Papers: Women's Health & Urban Life Special Issue
Deadline for submission: July 31, 2010 Papers are invited for a Special Issue on Women's Health and Public Policy (for publication in May 2011) edited by Dr. Toba Bryant, Health Studies, Department of Social Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough. Manuscripts may address the full range of health topics pertaining to public policies about women's health. Particularly welcome are papers that address the social determinants of health for women and their policy implications. Also welcome are manuscripts that address issues relating to public education, and health care programs and services that meet the specific needs of diverse groups of women living and working in urban or urbanizing areas. For more information, contact Dr. Bryant: tbryant@utsc.utoronto.ca For more information about the journal, visit our website.
6. Calling Colleagues in Older & Elderly Women’s Health Research
Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Excellence (PWHCE) is preparing to conduct research on older and elderly women’s use of prescription drugs and natural health products to learn about women’s current priorities and information needs, with the intent of providing additional information to women and to health planners. The study will build on existing knowledge of women’s health researchers and gather views from women aged 65 and older, living in rural and urban communities. We are looking for input on qualitative research methods that are effective, appropriate and sensitive to this population. For more information, visit our website.
7. Call for Abstracts: The Place of Birth - The Canadian Association of Midwives’ 10th Annual Conference
Deadline: Abstracts must be submitted by email to admin@canadianmidwives.org no later than March 31st 2010 at 5:00pm (EST). The Canadian Association of Midwives Annual Conference will take place October 6-8, 2010 at Sutton Place Hotel in Edmonton, AB. This year we will focus on a theme that is inspiring new research, passion and debate in maternity care and research circles in many countries today: The Place of Birth. Invited Canadian and international speakers will bring current findings and expert perspectives on various birth settings, the safety of home birth and the impact of birthplace on maternity care politics, practices and outcomes. For more information on submitting an abstract and about the conference, visit our website.
8. The Girls Action Foundation presents: The Amplify Toolkit!
What is the result of 15 years of Girls Action expertise in delivering and supporting girls’ programs, the endless knowledge and insights collected from our National Network Members, and three years of compiling only the best of the best? The Amplify Toolkit! See our new toolkit.
9. Reality Check: Women in Canada and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action Fifteen Years On
Labour and women’s groups have issued a report which they say is a “reality check” describing Canada’s lagging performance in achieving women’s equality. The report will be used at the Beijing +15 meeting at the United Nations in New York, March 1-12. “Canadian women have lost ground in many areas in the past 15 years,” says Barbara Byers, Canadian Labour Congress Executive Vice-president. “Our government has sent a report to the United Nations that paints a rosy picture on women’s equality in Canada. We have written our own document and it is a reality check on what the government is saying.” Read the press release. Read the full report.
10. Dying Too Young: Maternal Mortality
In this 2009 report by Amnesty International examining the issue of young women dying in childbirth, the authors say, “Poverty drives maternal mortality, and maternal death and injury drive families further into poverty. Complications of pregnancy and childbirth rarely kill affluent women from developed countries. Governments must mobilize the resources and take other necessary steps to ensure that all women enjoy their right to life, their right to determine the number and spacing of their children, and their right to the highest attainable standard of health, all without discrimination.” Read the full report.
11. Vulvagraphics intervention is now on YouTube: New View Campaign
A 5-minute video of the New View Campaign’s October 2009 Vulvagraphics: An Intervention In Honor Of Female Genital Diversity is now on YouTube. The event was organized by New View to oppose the new unregulated and unmonitored genital cosmetic surgery industry as a growing threat to women’s sexual well-being. See the event on YouTube. Visit the New View website for the whole story, artist links, and final report.
12. 3rd Annual Blogging Carnival on Kickaction.ca!
To celebrate Girls Action Foundation's National Day of Action on February 14th, Kickaction.ca will be hosting its 3rd annual Blogging Carnival. For four weeks, our illustrious guest bloggers, such as Jessica Yee from Native Youth Sexual Health Network, Widia Larivière from Quebec Native Women and Carly Boyce from Project 10, will start discussions on selected topics! We invite you participate in the discussions and let your voices be heard by leaving your comments and inviting your friends and colleagues to take part. To learn more about the Blogging Carnival, visit our website.
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