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- Girls, women and substance use
- http://www.cewh-cesf.ca/PDF/bccewh/substanceUse.pdf
- Published: 2005
Summarizes the ways in which substance use and addiction differ for girls and women, and the implications of those differences for policy, research, systems and services.
(See Details) - Teenage girls and smoking: a research agenda: workshop report, Nov. 30 - Dec. 1, 2001
- http://www.cewh-cesf.ca/PDF/bccewh/girls-smoke.pdf
- Published: 2002
Presents issues relevant to research on teen girls and smoking. Throughout the two-day workshop, two significant themes emerged as being important to incorporate in all research investigating tobacco use in girls: integration and mainstreaming of sex and gender into all tobacco-related research across the four CIHR pillars plus policy research; and integration of a developmental approach to the study of smoking in girls and teenaged girls. (See Details)
- Evening the odds: adolescent women, tobacco and physical activity
- http://www.caaws.ca/Girls/eveningodds.htm
- Examines the link between dropping out of physical activity and taking up smoking. Shows coaches, physical activity leaders and others how addressing both behaviours can improve the life circumstances of teen girls. (See Details)Published: 1996
- Guidelines for Inuit communities working on reducing tobacco use (Inuktitut)
- http://www.pauktuutit.ca/tobacco/pdf/Guidelines_reducingtobacco_INUK.pdf
- Provides guidelines for people working in the health fields wanting to address community concerns about the effects of tobacco use, in Inuktitut. (See Details)Published: 1995
- Smoking and women's health: 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'
- http://www.gawh.org/programs/03_02_99/pdf/smoking.pdf
- Presents the edited proceedings and panel discussions of a program sponsored by the World Health Organization's Tobacco-Free Initiative (WHO/TFI), WHO and the Global Alliance for Women's Health (GAWH) held on March 2, 1999. (See Details)Published: 1999
- ABC of smoking cessation: why people smoke
- http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/328/7434/277
- Examines the social, economical, personal, and political influences that play a part in determining who starts smoking , who gives up, and who continues. (See Details)Published: 2004
- Women and tobacco: background discussion paper and literature review: part II of a workng document for the second national works
- Focuses on recent review articles, key documents provided by Health Canada and example research studies and program evaluations to highlight the issues discussed.Published: 1995
- Breathing easy: community resource kit
- http://www.pauktuutit.ca/tobacco/pdf/comm_resourcekit_E.pdf
- Presents a health worker's resource binder featuring common questions-and-answers about the effects of tobacco use, testimonies from smokers who've tried to quit, activity ideas and more. (See Details)Published: 1997
- How gender-based policies can help limit the spread of tobacco use among girls and women and improve their lives
- http://www.cwhn.ca/node/39438
- Examines how preventing the full expansion of the tobacco epidemic among the world’s women will be a critical factor in improving the status of women. (See Details)Published: Spring/Summer 2007
- Act now: women and tobacco
- Examines ways that groups concerned about women can help Canadian girls and women to be smoke-free. Provides basic information to women's groups, health organizations, educators, policy makers, employers, unions and community groups in order to take action. Contains practical checklist enabling organizations to determine if they are taking a woman-centred approach in their action.Published: 1993
